Re:German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
by sovreign on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:10PM
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Hope the Aptera safety testing comes back better than these older cars. Aptera and similar aerodynamic, (hopefully) inexpensive cars are really a nice middle ground between hefty Teslas and EV motorcycles.
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Re:German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
by iSnow on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @04:26AM
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https://sonomotors.com/ - if they make it. I like their solar-augmented car, and it's not terribly expensive. But they need a lot of money to get the production started.
Re:German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
by eliaspro on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @02:48PM
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They just IPOed at Nasdaq and raked in €172.5 Million. This should hopefully help them to get a bit further towards production.
Re:German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
by bagels on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:03PM
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Modern engineering and modern materials. Shouldn't be hard to do better in a crash than something designed before seat belts and crumple zones were implemented in cars.
Re:German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
by capitainenemo on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:46PM
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One warning is they deliberately chose 3 wheels to qualify as motorcycle and thus lower requirements (probably in interests of weight and to allow more innovative technologies - I remember design #1 had issues with wanting to use cameras instead of mirrors for more streamlining, but bikes had to have mirrors too, at least at the time).
But, yeah, overall the design seems good and certainly far better than a typical 3 wheel motorbike.