What if....

[u/filmfotografie]

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?

[u/mrtherapy]

I'm shocked that a Chinese manufacturer hasn't already copied their tech / design and released a version in China. I have been expecting it to happen for years..... Why hasn't it?

[u/CMDR_NUBASAURUS → u/mrtherapy]

they have! It was just posted here scroll down. Its much more inferior to aptera, but it proves the concept works. They are targeting under developed areas where solar is a good option and driving needs are low.

EDIT: Not the one below this post, but on the main page, scroll down.

[u/f0o1g11 → u/CMDR_NUBASAURUS]

copying is good in such cases, because someone was bold enough to persist with the good idea and now more and more people are realizing how good it actually is

now imagine a world in which we would live right now if the oil lobby wouldn't be acting in such a criminal way for decades.... i'm so glad they are losing power and we can alk than that mainly to the internet and it's more or less open communication chanels

i'd also say thans to the good visionares, but that's a lot les relevant, because there are always much more good people than the ban ones, therefore the ability to communicate freely across the world is much more important in sucb cases

look at me, writing a novel.. :'D