What do you guys think about the pricing? Is it price competitive enough?
I see the roadster as more of a 2nd car category for most families (with 3rd seat if possible) or a young couple as opposed to family 5 seater car.
Driving the COSTS down automatically creates more demand; which in turn drives further costs reduction; thereby even more demand!!
Like the concept, the design, and the efficiency; but unsure about interior quality. I guess once it's out; there will be more marketing or review materials!
Note: I'm based in Australia and would love to see it here. Plenty of sunshine and long long roads!!!
In interviews Chris gas said the Aptera may not fit everyone’s need and hopes folks may have in parked at theirs homes next to. Cybertruck or whatever else makes sense fir that family but hopes when you drive an Aptera you will enjoy tget ride and use more often.
Price?
I guess Tesla started/ launched with a super expensive roadster? Of course the Aotera is not that expensive many years later. An even the less expensive 25kWh FWD Aptera will be coming at the lowest price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The 25kWh might be a future candidate for a third seat TBD .They say
Yes it will be nice to pet one “safely” after this pandemic😔
Agree that it's not for everyone but then when I looked at their roadmap, it's almost has if it's competing against other EVs head for head in terms of like, sedan category, utility car category and even the Semi-trailer/truck category.
Either way, it looks good but if doing something, may as well be aggressive else Aptera will run out of cash like last time; which would be a bummer!! They do have to go out to market and get investors and bring this to IPO.
No point doing half way or like be a hobby car.
MSRP under $18k is easily achievable just by offering the option of deleting items that aren't 100% necessary for everyone, but should be pretty easily added later*.
More cost-cutting discussion on this same forum here (click here)
The basic Aptera concept is already relatively inexpensive, so a stripped-down version would be pretty economical, especially as car #2 of a 2-car household. (the car for trips with "only" 1-3 people, with the 3rd-seat option)
*Solar, dual-motor, wheel covers, rearview cameras, & a smallest-avail batt that goes 625% of the US avg. daily drive.
I hope the cost-cutting discussion isn't purely a discussion about removing features that can be seen in other EVs. The idea is to try and reduce costs while maximising number of features available that people want/need.
The reason is that when a new customer comes along and has a certain budget; that person may start comparing a few EVs at the same time
The first choice to look at is Tesla - Their $25K option and see what features they have..
Hopefully by then, if/when they look at Aptera, and they go.. Hmm . Aptera actually provides a LOT Of Value.... for the price
What is the amount of money that will be enough to start manufacturing? Some fine EVs have been manufactured (Ford Transit EV https://www.automobilemag.com/news/azure-dynamics-maker-of-ford-transit-connect-ev-files-for-bankruptcy-120107/, Ford Th!nk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_TH!NK ) but were unsustainable.
It's much easier to be sustainably profitable with Aptera's huge battery cost advantage of requiring 60% less battery (per mile of range) than any prior EV. They also have the advantage over all past EVs with today's very significantly lower battery (& solar cell) costs.
If there are minimal parts and assembly compared to other EV cars like they have claimed - then perhaps the assembly line may not be as complex as other EVs that has 200+ parts that needs to be put together precisely on time, every time.