Aptera destruction (#1)

Now I know what it was like to watch Roman soldiers burn down the library of Alexandria for fun.

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Travel & Events

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• Aptera
• cars
• crush
• destroyed

[TheZeke165]

even the employees agree they're worthless pieces of crap.

[KarenRei]

@TheZeke165 These are not the people who built them. Almost all of Team A was fired after Paul took over. Remember the disastrous X-prize vehicle from Aptera? That was Team B's work.

[KarenRei]

Might as well destroy the Wright Flyer, too. "Crash testing", or perhaps "getting rid of a dangerous prototype".

FYI, a crash test of one of these models was done at 35mph and it handled just fine. An *actual* crash test, not a "remove the subframe and crush the against a wall with a forklift while cracking jokes" game.

[Deuces824ev]

Please stop trying to suggest that this had anything to do with the company closing. These videos are nearly a year old. No vehicles were damaged with the exit of the company. These bodies were development rejects. All of the functioning prototypes are still siting inside the building in Carlsbad. There is one of every vintage from the very first vehicle. Check your facts before you spead this crap. Some people dedicated their lives to this.

[alcram]

@StarbucksChunks Talking about SUVs roll and play dead. Your god is keeping you in the stone age.

[alcram]

@pbstl747 That is not true if you take in account going and fight a war to getting it from another country, extracting it, transporting it, guarding it, refining it, transporting it again, maintaining the whole infrastructure and using it on and IC engine that is probably 22 per cent efficient at its best. But, I'm sure you did put all that on the equation when you made your comment. BTW our taxes should go to corporations that take our jobs elsewhere by your reasoning.

[alcram]

@pbstl747 That is not true if you take in account going and fight a war to getting it from another country, extracting it, transporting it, guarding it, refining it, transporting it again, maintaining the whole infrastructure and using it on and IC engine that is probably 22 per cent efficient at its best. But, I'm sure you did put all that on the equation when you made your comment. BTW our taxes should go to corporations that take our jobs elsewhere by your reasoning.

[alcram]

@miliniumjava I couldn't agree with you more. You are so right!

[alcram]

@chesterfran1 Yeah motorcycles are for a narrow slice of the population. What country are you making this comment from?

[alcram]

@PersonalJesus348 The guys that cave were the traitors send by the big corporation because this car was a threat. Just like everything in the US lately. Gone are the days when we used to invent, design and built for the world. Now corporations run your ass in everything you do. We'll buy the same car in 10 years built by Chinese company mark my words.

[PersonalJesus348]

These guys caved. Plain and simple. You keep catering to everyone you please no one.

[chesterfran1]

I am all about saving money.... but seems to be designed for such a narrow slice of the population. I keep hearing going to get groceries in it and run errands around town? Can this thing handle even the smallest pothole, or curb? How much of your groceries could you fit in it? Forget small kids, larger dogs. Could this thing go up even a moderatly small hill in snow, or rain? Seems to me it would just be someting someone drove for fun with little real utility.

[miliniumjava]

I am a conservative, not a progressive, i really wanted to buy this car not because of the environment but because of conserving my wallet. This car was so aerodynamic it had a chance to change the whole way we create vehicles. This video was obviously a ploy of the elite bankers who bought aptera solely to run it into the ground and keep us all slaves to big government and big corporations

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[Knepperify1]

While EV's are not viable as they waste electricity compared to ICE's and simply move the pollution from tailpipe to Powerplant, the destruction of cutting edge American technology - even flawed tech as these videos show - is just another nail in the coffin of American industry and innovation.

The country is now LITERALLY destroying it's most forward looking products.

This is highly self-destructive.