Solar-Powered Car That Never Needs To Charge! Aptera
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- Revolutionary Drive: Discover Aptera, the Solar-Powered Car That Never Needs Charging! ☀️🚗✨
Step into the future with us as we explore Aptera, the groundbreaking solar-powered car that's changing the rules of the road. This video provides an exclusive look at how the Aptera car harnesses the power of the sun to offer a driving experience free from charging cords. With its sleek design and innovative technology, Aptera isn't just a car; it's a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation.
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Innovative Design: Dive into the features that make Aptera a standout in the automotive world, including its aerodynamic shape and solar cell integration.
Technology Behind the Magic: Understand the advanced solar technology that allows Aptera to stay charged without ever plugging in, offering potentially infinite mileage.
Performance and Practicality: See how Aptera performs on the road in various conditions and evaluate its practicality for everyday use.
Sustainability Impact: Assess the environmental benefits of driving a solar-powered vehicle and its potential to revolutionize green transportation.
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Are Solar powered cars the real future in EV's?
They need an efficiency breakthrough, but it will happen. A combination of that and better batteries will really help make these mainstream. Independent power like solar or even a home wind turbine charging a power wall will help ease range anxiety. The biggest bugaboo is still the overall cost. $2500 per unit would do it.
Solar panels on cars don't make much sense. Good thing Aptera isn't a car.
@@tims8603 Wasn't that long ago we were saying " why would you need to carry a phone around?"
@@tims8603 The solar cells don't weigh much, don't cost too much. It's a logical choice for many vehicle owners.
Nice, informative, fast-paced video! A couple comments... You quoted a price of $33,000. This is for the Launch Edition (full solar, AWD, 42 kWh battery/400-mile range). The base model is currently priced at $25,900. Also the pinapple leather console (and "funky net cup holder") was in the Gamma prototype but is not in the production model (replaced by an elegant metal assembly for the cup holder). See the Launch Edition render videos (or 7:48 in your video).
Thanks for the input!
A couple of corrections: Starting base price for Aptera is $25,900.... the $33K applies to the initial Launch Edition vehicle. Charging rate is 40-60 Kilowatt Hours, not kilometers. Great video otherwise and well researched!
Nice overview of the Aptera. I like to point out that is not the fact that it is solar powered that is true advantage of Aptera, it is that it is so efficient. This efficiency is both because it is extremely aerodynamic, and that it has three wheels. It is also extremely light, but it could not be this light without being this aerodynamic, and the three wheels works with the light weight to make it even more efficient.
The composite construction helps with the weight too, but the battery is a good portion of the weight, and the more range you need, the more the battery becomes the major part of the weight. So the aerodynamics is the most important part.
With 10 miles per kWh, solar charging becomes functional and not just a way of trickle charging a few miles here or there. The Aptera CAN'T run on solar forever, that's impossible, but if you drive less than 40 miles a day, you don't need to charge. And if you drive more that 40 miles a day, well you still don't have to pay for a lot of it.
There will be an option to take off most of the solar cells, and it will still be incredibly efficient and cost way less to drive than other EVs.
I became aware of Aptera around 2008. Many thousands of people put deposits on them and in 2011 the company dissolved. I had seen the same thing happen with Elio motors. Then in 2021 Aptera was back and over 10,000 deposits were taken and every year since 2022 the production is pushed to next year. If next year we’re hearing that production will begin in 2026 I would conclude it’s never going to happen. I think the corporate officers are probably making a nice salary, and if the new company doesn’t make it they won’t be indicted for a ponzi scheme because they tried. I hope that they do succeed and that my concern is invalid and that everyone who gave them money will get a vehicle.
Well, the preorders are in escrow, so they literally can't touch that money until they deliver the vehicles. Also with the current production intent vehicles finally being built, it's looking way more likely. The carbon fiber and fiberglass shells look great!
Aptera Owners Club did an excellent comparison of Aptera vs. Elio. Quite a difference in the companies. Note that Aptera refunded all deposits, while Elio did not. That's called integrity.
For me this vehicle is not about solar. Just a little free fuel. And who doesn’t like free fuel. The vehicle is efficient. I love efficiency. I love this vehicle!
Nice pacing.
correction: solar panels are ONLY on the horizontal surfaces & much of the video is outdated. thanks for the free advertising
How i can add an extra solar panel inside the windshield for extra juice just like is put up my sunshade
Wow … an AI copy of Ageing Wheels video (which by the way is way quirkier and fun to watch). So strange to get all these AI videos. the content is technically correct but only repeats what others say and there is a lack of logical connection between concepts. ugh.
There is nothing in this that is AI but thank you for watching.
@@GreenCarBuzz You're better off blaming it on AI.
Hone in of the pricing info but otherwise this was a good video bringing up the economic prowess it offers
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Suspensions 😮?! Where did suspension go?!
It's there.
Would be great if it ever gets to production and the wheels don't fall off
Haha so true!
Why would the wheels fall off? What a strange thing to say....very odd indeed.
@@rchender Look at their position. If one hits any object at a reasonable speed it will be extremely vulnerable. With the hub motors that's going to be very expensive.
Where do you get such an idea?? Have you been privy to some crash or road hazard testing that the rest of us haven't seen? I would be very careful if I were you of spreading such misinformation.@@rw6262
You're obviously incompetent. If a 4 wheeled vehicle hit your proposed object then it would be totaled. At least an Apteran can replace a segmented wheel much easier
$33,000 is way overpriced for a hyped up sub compact 2 seater, 3-wheel autocycle.
Hub motors have been around forever, despite your incorrect claim in the video, not only are they less efficient than inboard motors and a reduction gear they are also much more susceptible to impact damage and dirt and grime intrusion and require much more maintenance.
You won't get anywhere near 8.9kwh a day from the solar panels - the maximum you can put on an Aptera are nominally rated for 700w total capacity and 610w effective charge capacity = around 3.9 to 4 kwh of charge maximum on the 22nd June on a sunny day in Yuma Arizona good for perhaps 40mi of range, the average year round in a sunny climate is 2.8 to 3kwh per day or 28 to 30miles. To acheive this requires the car to be outside in the elements from sunrise to sunset every day of the year, never in a garage, covered carpark, under shaded tree - assuming full sun 100% of the time.
So you generate around 1000 to 1100kwh a year in absolutely ideal conditions with the panels, at 20c per kwh = $200 to $220 in generated electricty - the panels add around $3000 to the cost of the car - that's around 15years payback it's a complete gimmick, with all the hassle of making sure your car is in the Sun - meanwhile adding 3kwh to my Tesla model 3 takes around 15min at home and costs me 24c, Around 1min 10 sec at a DC fast charger and around $1.00 what a total waste of time and effort on the panels.
A 1000 mile Aptera with current battery technology would require a 100kwh battery - I'll believe it when I see it.
Finally the icing on the cake ....the maximum Level 2 charging speed is 3.3kw and the maximum DC charging speed for the Launch edition will be 40kw - that's completely unacceptable these days when the benchmark is 350kw, your average Tesla is 250kw and even the cheaper Chinese Evs are at 150kw, your 60kwh launch edition pulls up to a Supercharger and takes 1hour 15min to go from 10 to 80% meanwhile 4 Teslas have come and gone in the stall next door and the 5th is 1/3rd of the way through their charge to do the same thing.
Oh you mean like a Porsche 911? or a Mazda Miata? or a Chevy Corvette? Oh I forget, they all have four wheels for extra weight and drag. And i'm so glad you've contributed your expansive expertise on the problems with hub motors. I'm sure Aptera has completely forgotten to consider those things....yeah, that's the ticket.
Do you hate getting something for free? If the sun is out, the Aptera will be able to charge. As far as charging goes, right now they're limiting the charging to 50kw, because honestly, the efficency of the vehicle is what makes it great. You will be able to go farther on a shorter charge and won't have to worry as much about cooling with the higher speed chargers. It will be nice not to have to install a high speed charger in the house as well, because a 110v outlet will be able to charge it at about 13 miles an hour. Car sits outside during the day and charging at off peak at night is the way to go.
Seems like IWM are more efficient and better than just having an internal electric motor and I think the thing looks sealed up well enough to keep the dirt out. th-cam.com/video/RjISvISOW5Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Pkc2Asy4c4PORiV5
wait, if there is no gear reduction, that means the motors are actually outputting a total of 3300lb'ft of toruque? idont beleive that, there must be some kind of gear reduction to get that kind of torque.
No gears. The hubs themselves are the motors. Check out Elaphe, the company that makes them
The surface area on the Aptera doesn't look any larger than for the other cars shown.
Aptera have never validated any of their claims. The solar charging would be good for about 5 km a day.
No physics has validated their claims. It's called modelling and computational science.
Up to 40 miles a day is there projection. They have some great transparent interviews wiht the Talosive channel and Aptera Owners Club that's worth checking out.
Aptera have built prototype solar panels that met the desired estimate. I saw a video where one such panel was producing 80 Watts, and that was near sunset. It would have normally been producing 180 Watts. Just to do the math, that's at least 1.08 kW or 10.8 miles over the course of a day's charge. For one panel.
More recently they have finalized their solar panel design and verified that they also work as intended. I'm assuming these are the same panels that will be used in production.
The majority of the Aptera's power will come from it's hatch. That holds about half the total cells.
i love aptera so fucking much man. if they don t succed it will be one of the biggest let downs in humans history way of transportation.
Absolutely!
They're already succeeding...just not at the pace that will keep all the negative nancy's and naysayers entertained. So they have to keep bitching about this and about that....things that they haven't even made themselves aware of with the information that already exists.
@@rchender If you're sitting on the sidelines watching, the pace and integrity might not matter. If you've made a deposit, tried scheduling your next vehicle purchase, or made a major donation that you thought was an investment, you would be more concerned.
@@artsmith103 Hi Art Smith, I'm not sitting on the sidelines. I have invested and am very excited that I've done so. I also have an Aptera on order and am very excited (but patient) to get what I believe is an enormous game changer in the personal transportation arena. Some of the evolutionary steps that Aptera might take or could take are exciting, novel and may lead to some amazing developments both within and external to the vehicle industry. I'm a big fan of Six Sigma / Lean development and manufacturing and I see Aptera doing all the right things as Sandy Munro has stated. Room for improvements? Yep, but as we've seen with solar cells, battery tech and even electric motor tech, improvements will keep coming with the appropriate tech stimuli. To those who only look back or cannot see beyond the tips of their noses or who have zero patience, I say: "Don't buy one if you aren't convinced. But stop telling those of us who like what we see that we don't know what we're doing because WE DO!"
It's good good see that the Aptera never needs to charge. Now it's fact.
Caveat that statement for the average commute.
You should talk. You've been complaining for 2 years over easily fact checked concerns. Children learn the stove is hot faster than you can check yourself on your own idiocracy
TBF, Solar Charging is still charging. You need to get juice to the battery by some means. If you mean to say, you may never need to plug it in to charge, then yes, that would be a fact.
@@artboymoy - It's almost like they have misleading titles for these Aptera videos. I drive 75 miles round trip for work. No where to plug it in at work. So, would I need to plug it in at some time? I was just hoping 100% solar charging.
The author never said that the Aptera never needs to be charged. He said that the solar power will "tack on an extra 40 miles of range per day". Do not put words in his mouth.
So many mistakes....
Thanks for the input. We are genuinely working hard at doing research to bring factual info to the channel. Obviously, we are human so mistakes will happen, but we will continue to revise and improve our research efforts to give the best content possible. Thanks again.