The best daily transportation isn’t a car/truck at all, but there is still some need for freight/hauling to be done.
I’m posting because this truck feels like the opposite of modern trucks. I mean the CyberTruck (literally the icon of Cyberpunk dystopia) and other trucks like Rivian are:
- extremely anti-right to repair
- brag about their 0-60 (instead of practicality/efficiency)
- a privacy nightmare
- massive in size
- have high prices across the board
- are absolutely crammed with manadory luxury features like air conditioned seats or motorized trunks
This truck, with manual roll-up windows, seems to be about getting work done. Its not trying to be the biggest baddest fastest most-techo-advanced thing money can buy.
I bet, in less than 1 year, hobbyists will have solar panel array mounted on the back of these.
I emailed them and they confirmed there’s no data tracking on it
Honestly a utility vehicle that isn’t a surveillance box is like all I want from an electric vehicle
Damn, that’s a pretty major pro/incentive, and makes it stand out not only in the EV world, but the entire new car market.
Here’s hoping the Aptera follows suit (unfortunately there is no way to contact them to ask such a question, as according to their contact page, they will only respond to media inquiries, and won’t answer any questions related to the vehicle).
“Bezos backed”
That’s going to be a big 'ol nope from me…
(1) Only minor involvement from what I can see.
(2) A broken clock is right twice a day. So long as the car doesn’t require a Facebook account, I’m happy.
I, as a 6’5" man was watching the video linked thinking “oh no, this looks kind of cool but I’ll never fit in it”. Until the host mentions he’s 6’10" LMAO, I looked it up and he sure is. They should really add a disclaimer at the bottom of the videos he’s in cause it throws off your prescription of the car lol
I live firmly in the #FuckCars camp, but I honestly think this is fantastic. Standards and conformity breed massive changes within an industry if they’re permitted to take root, and this is already bucking the “monster truck” trend that’s killing people and ruining cities.
Imagine the potential of a city buying a few thousand of these to serve as work vehicles: interchangeable parts would drastically reduce costs as you could canibalise one vehicle to service many, and you could easily re-task vehicles with minor, off-the-shelf (or even custom) modifications.
The real test though will be whether (a) the establishment car companies will allow it to survive, and (b) whether its US origins will make it radioactive to the rest of the world given their current fall toward fascism.
Someone finally listened to me about manual roll up windows. This is tits.
The last car I had with that was a 2004 Ford Focus, and those things were made cheap. Like afraid it would snap off on a cold winter day kind of cheap. In fact, the gas cover did exactly that one very cold morning.
This thing is built very cheap, so I wouldn’t get too excited.
I’m less excited about this truck specifically as much as the idea of affordable economy vehicles with no-frills making a comeback.
So exciting to see that this might start making some changes. I would be very happy to see European-style small cars that are simple and just made to get you from one place to another. It doesn’t need to be an identity thing.
Of course, public transit is better but light trucks would be a good start I suppose. Won’t save the environment but might save lives in accidents
