SO, on the balance of things, does this look like Aptera is going to produce any cars for sale in 2022, or is this just enough space to continue more R&D?
According to my Aptera Log-in... so nope, not 2022. I'll check again next year. At least as far as actual delivery for my own reservation.
My Order ID =15421.
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What I have found out is that three wheeled startups promise big things and deliver with the key word "soon". They are happy to take your reservation money too. Only oddball is Vanderhall. Private funded and they didn't ask for your money up front. Plus they did it in record time. So the issue is, (you see this with EV's) is that they want your money up front, use that as a some sort of confirmed orders then, run lots of videos where everyone is smiling and happy. The latest scheme is to keep introducing more variations and models while not being able to build the original version. All while you continue to age and wonder, "When will I receive mine?" To finish it off, the price goes up (nobody can avoid inflation) and the specs go down.
I suspect Aptera will be like Arcimoto. Start trickling out a number of vehicles and then use any excuse (Covid, lack of employees, inflation, economic downturn) to just put you off.
Aptera will probably introduce a new version and three other ones all while you wait for yours. Best part is, when they make 500 of them in three years, you can be happy that they are only around 10K from building yours or just claim your state is on the banned list of sales due to "reasons".
As for the Aptera factory, the tub is to be 3D printed, so that could be done anywhere, battery pack will be built elsewhere. So maybe they don't need too much space to build them. I heard that EV's are really simple to build. Elio can do a full blown steel stamped operation with a small fraction as anyone else in the world can do. So, I'm thinking, Paul might be the secret consultant at Aptera as to why they can produce so many in such small space.