wonder if it would be cheaper to hire ubers to drive the car itself to the customer rather than hire truckers who have to pay for maintenance and inefficient running of their trucks on top of human labor cost. uber driver can be held accountable in not damaging the car via contract. people at the company can also deliver cars theirselves, and having fewer people doing more deliverys will make the job more attractive and each hired uber driver is more experienced, more confident, with handling deliverys, and such decreases how much aptera needs to trust different drivers with delivering on time (as reported by the customer) and not damaging the car.
another method could be mail delivering parts and having customer put some parts together without much skill, just b/c normal amazon delivery maybe cost less than paying a tucking company to load the car in whole onto trucks. bundles of pieces can be sent at different times if that makes delivery cheaper.
Uber driver would have to find a way back home but good thinking.
Second option will not be possible. They addressed this in the FAQ i believe.
they could uber their way back home, these uber drivers probably would do it b/c they dont have much business even before covid. also public transportation, where it helps
Yes, Daniel is correct
I believe there is. 1000 mile/ 7day return allowance to factor in too
I am 🤔Imaging, for the majority of US deliveries, a Carvana or Vroom delivery type delivery, maybe with a tutorial of the vehicle operation at drop off.
But just more imagining from here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm down for being flown to pick up as long I can use tesla charging stations to drive home.
Pick it up and take a few days of vacation to drive it in the vicinity of Aptera's facility so anything that shows up in "sea trials" can be addressed easily. That's my plan.