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Wing Him Li
Nov 17, 2019

Rear Tire Blowout

I own a velomobile, which is a three-wheels recumbent tricycle with a hard shell. It is a tadpole configuration with two wheels in front and one at the rear. I had it for over six years and always have a concern regarding rear tire blowout. It never happens to me but many people owning a velomobile have scary experience with rear tire blowout. It loses

lateral stability once rear tire loses traction. The Aptera has a similar configuration. I wonder your design team looks into the rear tire blowout sceneraio or not.

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Len
Nov 17, 2019

Thanks for sharing. Hopefully someone from Aptera could share their experiences and/ or insight.

As far as the tire...they had on the 2009 prototype..it was an air tire, size: P165/65R14

I haven’t seen a tire specification on the new vehicle. I never owned a run flat tire, if that helps..but any air tire can blowout.

Maybe another ”vote” for the airless tire if viable?!🤞

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NeilBlanchard
Nov 22, 2019

Oooo! You have a Quest? I am very jealous. In my avatar, the red vehicle is a better.bike PEBL, which is a much more upright electric/pedal reverse trike. I have about 2,500 miles on it in the year+ I have had it.


No flats, so far.

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JT
Dec 2, 2019

Fantastic velomobile. I have been a huge fan of those vehicles for a long time. Even had thoughts of starting a velomoblie company myself, but low in funds sadly. You bring up a good point about the rear wheel of the Aptera. Maybe with the vehicle being AWD it can cleverly adjust for loss of control in a situation like you mention. But this is a guess

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Jim Pike
Jan 3

Possibly some stability control over the two front wheel motors would compensate.

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