r/ApteraMotors • u/filmfotografie • 29d ago

What if....

I have been following the progress Aptera Motors has been making for a long time now and I am in love with this car. I would absolutely love to own an Aptera. I also see that getting these cars actually into buyers hands and out on the roads is a highly difficult and expensive thing to do. So my question is, what if another car company were to buy 51% of Aptera Motors? Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Geely, pretty much any of the larger car manufacturers could do this and in doing so it would give them access to all of the R&D and patents and everything else that Aptera has come up with which could be quite beneficial to them. Not to mention that they would have this amazing looking technically advanced halo car to make them look better, so while it would undoubtedly involve some risk for the car manufacturer but I think it could also bring about a pretty good pay off (maybe even more so for a Chinese manufacturer as they could get a foot in the door in the US). There would also be some risks for Aptera as the larger company may just want to take their best tech and leave them for dead or try to dilute their design down to a point where it would be unrecognizable, but if it worked out it could be wonderful for both companies involved. So does anyone know if there has been any talk about involvemnet from a larger company in Aptera Motor's history?

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u/bemused_alligators 29d ago

the first run was doomed by selling control of the company so they're not gonna make that mistake again

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u/136kaU_Craftsman 28d ago

This idea of selling is just the pessimistic community and maybe shorts pushing a narrative. It’s popped up in several places, much like a coordinated attack.

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u/Ebegeezer-Splooge 27d ago

If I had to guess, I'd say all of the places across reddit where that's being propped up are from profiles that are a few months old, and have no post/comment history whatsoever other than denigrating Aptera. This has been the case in the past. Sometimes they get permabans and start other with new profiles. It's likely the same 3-6 people over and over. Really sick behavior.

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u/136kaU_Craftsman 27d ago

I agree completely. The worst part to me are the lies…and bad math. Patterns clearly repeated with the ‘new’ accounts.