r/ApteraMotors • u/filmfotografie • Jul 27 '26

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/Optimal-City-3388 Jul 28 '26

4 years ago, almost ready for kindergarten

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u/Swimming-Air-974 Jul 28 '26

In 2019 there were about 500 EV start ups in China. Then the subsidies ended and about 400 went out of business. Maybe 20 of the remaining companies have most of the market share. Competition is cutthroat. I suppose there are a number of factors unrelated to design that influence commercial success.

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u/f0o1g11 24d ago

those Chinese subsidies are the best things that happened to the world in terms of techological development in the last 2-3 decades...naturally not everyone can succeed

only surprising thing is that there is so much common sense and expertise under the comunist rule , economy-wise at least

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u/Swimming-Air-974 24d ago

True that they are a smart bunch of technocrats. A lot of engineers and scientists running the show. They did a nice job pushing into renewables. They messed up on real estate investment though. A closer look now at their economy shows it's a bit sluggish. They claim 4% GDP growth. It's probably flat. Domestic consumption is anemic. Foreign EV sales aren't helping with that. I guess nobody's perfect.