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Whenever I hear about Aptera, the song The Long And Winding Road by the Beatles begins playing in my head because it truly has been a long and winding road for the company. Let’s begin by saying the concept for the Aptera is brilliant — a light, exquisitely aerodynamic, incredibly efficient electric vehicle that can squeeze as many miles out of kilowatt-hour of electricity as any production car in the history of the world. Add in solar panels integrated into its carbon fiber skin and you have a marvel of engineering that puts every other EV pretender to shame.
In essence, the Aptera resembles the cockpit of a small airplane but without the wings. That’s not surprising. An airplane has to have excellent aerodynamics or it won’t fly as a commercial proposition — pun intended….
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