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08/27/2020 at 16:19 • Filed to: the future we never got, aptera
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"phenotyp" (phenotyp)
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ranwhenparked
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:31 |
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I still think Aptera and Elio were needlessly reinventing a model that was already established and proven, but the Aptera certainly looked the better of the two.
facw
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:31 |
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The video of the factory workers destroying the prototype shells really annoyed me. Made a last minute comeback that much more unlikely.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:39 |
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These look fun.
ADDvanced
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:42 |
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Edit: Thought this was the Elio. The aptera was pretty interesting.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:47 |
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Me too.
I’m surprised that some Chinese company didn’t buy up all the tooling and start pumping them out. Part of me wants to make my own replica of one.
Slant6
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:53 |
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I remember I had an issue of Popular S cience with this on the cover back in like 2009.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 16:55 |
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Aptera was a serious shame, aero is most of the MPGs. I was pissed. I was thinking of getting the hybrid one they were planning. They were also considering a sedan. Everyone is talking range and efficiency, there it is!! Aero like an aircraft and who knows how efficient it could be.
user314
> facw
08/27/2020 at 17:09 |
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Sounds like what happened at Northrop when the YB-49 was canceled:
All remaining Flying Wing bomber airframes, except for the sole YRB-49A reconnaissance version, were ordered chopped up by (SecAF Stuart)
Symington (Who’d later go on to be president of Convair, who’s B-36 was in competition with the B-49)
,
the materials smelted down using portable smelters brought to Northrop’s facility, in plain sight of its employees.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 17:14 |
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Tangentaly related: Is El io officially dead yet?
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ranwhenparked
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
08/27/2020 at 17:35 |
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Not officially, they’re like one of those Japanese zombie companies that somehow still clings on to the barest definition of life, decades after the death certificate should have been issued.
f86sabre
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 18:05 |
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Same. I was ready to buy. Really. I liked the direction that they were going in.
kanadanmajava1
> facw
08/27/2020 at 19:15 |
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When the videos were posted in Jalopnik years ago (just after the company folded) , there was a clarification what was going on.
“ An Aptera spokesperson claims the videos, though posted this week, were actually from earlier this year.
The bodies in question were not slated for demolition because on any ill will or malice from any member of the company present or past. These particular 2e’s were defective and/or obsolete development properties that no longer had any value to the company.”
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/27/2020 at 19:23 |
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This looks more fun.
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phenotyp
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
08/27/2020 at 19:34 |
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I know.
onlytwowheels
> phenotyp
08/27/2020 at 19:44 |
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https://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/07/aptera-employees-smash-vehicles-after-company-closes/
https://jalopnik.com/watch-aptera-employees-smash-prototype-electric-cars-as-5865907
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
08/27/2020 at 21:42 |
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Fancy, but mine’s real!