It is interesting to note in all this discussion of charging that Aptera, long before the OEMs decided to go with the Tesla plug, actually submitted a petition for adoption of the Tesla plug nationwide. Of course, most people thought that was a stupid idea and figured it would never happen. However, Aptera did decide to use the plug for their vehicles when they come to production.
In an effort to increase the range of EVs most companies adopted the plan of just installing a bigger battery pack which increased weight and most likely decreased overall efficiency. The result is naturally longer charging times and efforts to increase the capacity of the charging units themselves. Aptera has taken a different approach by building a very efficient design so that a smaller battery pack is needed to actually get a greater range. And go figure, the smaller battery pack takes less time to charge. While most OEMs are looking at maybe 3-5 miles per kWh, Aptera is shooting for 10 miles per kWh. Since the average driving range per day is less than 40 or 50 miles the question becomes why would most people even need to stop and fast charge when they can simply plug in at home at night when the electric rates may be much lower and have a fully charged EV the next morning. Obviously there are people who don’t have access to chargers in apartments and such but might have access to 115 volt outlets at work or at an apartment complex. I leased a 2013 Nissan Leaf for three years and for the first two years I simply plugged it into a 115 outlet in my garage. Of course I was retired at the time and didn’t drive much per day but again a lot of people don’t drive all that far to work and back. But what about not needing to charge at all for most of the time using solar? Well Aptera is trying to solve that problem also with solar on the vehicle itself so that when the vehicle is parked at work you can actually add range for your trip home. If Aptera can realize a range of 10 miles per kWh then it will not take much solar to provide maybe 20 miles or so per day which is probably more than enough for most commutes. There are some here that say that is not possible but again, at one point not so long ago, adoption of the Tesla plug was a stupid idea as was Amazon. To be honest I am a supporter of Aptera and have an order in for one. Might not happen, but then again……. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230905/2f498e55/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
