It was an impressive demonstration of a car that likely will come with some heavy caveats and restrictions if it ever goes into production.
It won’t.
The event was less than 30 minutes and felt more like a stunt show than a product reveal.
Because that’s what it was.
Indeed, there was no mention of price, trim levels, release date, or other such mundane details.
Because it’s not a legitimate consumer product and it never will be.
As a product reveal, this is nothing short of blatant fraud. I guarantee there was nothing inside that shell but gas tanks and thrusters.
Musk has done this before. His solar roof tiles were made by an LA prop company. I’m sure if he showed a magic blood testing box people would invest billions.
The solar roof tiles were a real working product, they were just unprofitable even at very high price Tesla were selling them for. I briefly looked into them when I got solar panels installed at my previous home and it was about 50% more expensive thab replacing my roof and and getting traditional solar panels installed combined.
They never happened. Putting PV panels on the shady side of a roof was as brilliant as Hyperloop.
You think they didn’t know how much they would cost to make?
What do you mean they never happened? I know for a fact there were installs done with them and they were still offering them for installation in some area for years because I priced them out. They just didn’t get many people to go for it because the price was ludicrous and the product was unproven. Also, you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about with solar panels, if your roof is a good candidate for panels there isn’t some “shady side”.
The ol’ Sgt. Bilko maneuver.
“Honey! Take the kid’s college funds and buy Teslur!”
no mention of price
It flies, so the price has an extra digit compared to regular cars and immediately flies out of my budget.
Be realistic; it would have at least two extra digits.
Wait, ALL the digits are extra.
Always have been.
I’m shocked it wasn’t a Grok video.
I personally couldn’t give less of a fuck.
I just want busses, trains and walkable cities. Cars shouldn’t be the norm in any society.
Yes.
Also trams ! (That are well separated from car trafic)
I was just in Seoul and got around everywhere I wanted to go with public transit. Several times comparing public transit and taxis the transit was faster.
In all fairness they tried horribly in Nevada called the Vegas Loop where tunnels were built under the city to speed up transport using driverless teslas to get to like several points as quick as possible. I think it was a flop though. Its the big reason why companies shouldnt be making these things and instead should be government projects for infrastructure improvement. Mixing profit with necessity never works.
The whole idea is stupid. It’s a subway with 2 person cars.
The car company told us why subways simply don’t work well. Totally legit. The contract was also won in a competition called “who can make a good public transportation system”, so pay no attention to the car company taking the winnings away from the train and bus companies.
The car funds fascism
And vice-versa.
That’s nice. Fuck Elon Musk.
Why is it okay to hype products made by actual, literal Nazis? What the fuck is wrong with us?
I immediately lose respect for anyone I see in a Tesla. I get it. They might be good investments. But you are giving money (power) to a very powerful, very dangerous Nazi.
100%. There’s not even anything that great about them. There’s no world in which a person is forced to own a Tesla.
Complete trash. This is a massive con job.
This isn’t useful to anyone, anywhere. So only dipshits with a bunch of funny money are going to buy them as toys, just like the Cybercuck.
It’s going to be painted like the general lee and the horn will play la Cucaracha
The description in the article sounded a bit crazy… So I had to lookup a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qg
I can’t lie. That’s pretty fucking awesome. But until they deliver them it’s nothing more than a publicity stunt. And thus far it’s been… checks watch nine years.
Aptera has been promising their solar EV since 2009. Just another $150M bro, I promise.
But they just made 6 new prototypes!
Not really. It’s hype porn for teenage boys and emotionally immature men with underdeveloped frontal cortexes.
LOL there’s something wrong with you if you can’t recognize that rocket-powered flying cars are cool.
This is the dumbest shit I have seen in a while.
those carbon fiber pressure tanks for the thrusters make it a sort of Titan submersible for the road. in case of failure turning the billionaire occupant into soup.
We all k ow this is vaporware. It will never hit the road. It’s an expensive commercial for a blowhard made impotent from discovering the limit of ketamine.
Another smoke-and-mirrors show to dupe the rubes for a little while longer. Now gives them an excuse to buy spacexaixxaix and unlock his $1 trillion
shareholder theftpay package.IF it’s ever production ready, half a dozen will be sold to billionaires.
Ohhhh suuuuure 🤣
60 MPH in under a second. So…. It broke physics.
“Guys make me the cyberpunk 2077 car, put paint it silver because I have such a hardon for the BTTF DeLorean”
