Comments on: Aptera Electric Car Company Rises from Its Ashes: A Rescue by the Sleeping Dragon

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 08 May 2014 21:24:00 +0000

Getting off the grid means higher electricity prices.

By: New Pearce

New Pearce — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:36:00 +0000

Americans have no vision. Our government is out of control with wars and defense spending. Middle class is no more and on it’s way to extinction. Get of the grid, grow your own.

By: Mark edward marchiafava

Mark edward marchiafava — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:23:00 +0000

As a lifelong motorcyclist, I’d love to see someone take the Aptera and install a motorcycle engine which would drive the rear wheel. At 60, I’m looking for something to carry me into my later years. This would be so much better than a triked-out conventional motorcycle.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:52:00 +0000

Extremely, tremendously well summarized points. Thanks.

By: Richard Paige

Richard Paige — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:27:00 +0000

In the USA we make money by moving money around. Making money any other way is too much work. It is too bad that only a tiny fraction of the population benefits. Everybody is expected to bail out the super rich when they go bust. When they win, we lose. When they lose, we lose more. And we subsidize their taxes. They soak up so many resources. The last thing they are going to do is invest in American manufacturing. They are not patriotic.
In the last presidential election we saw this play out. The uber rich talk a carefully crafted script about being job creators. What they actually do is destroy American companies and jobs so that they can play games moving money around.
The best USA innovation and technology in energy and transportation is bought by foreign interests. A123 is no longer American, except for the portion that is defense related.

Big Oil interests have a strangle hold on Congress. We pay corporate welfare to them. All of the technology we need for energy independence has already been created here in the US. The ventures that create it can seldom survive, because they do not have the huge advantage that Big Oil has in the marketplace. We do not need Big Oil. They are a huge burdon. Every time another innovator like Aptera, A123 etc go to China, Big Oil laughs its ass off. They win, we lose.
If you want to watch them lose control of their bowels, start talking about all of the practical ways we can move our bodies around at over 100 mpg. My electric bike can move my full grown American body 1 mile down the road on about 50 watts of power. Where i live it is all hydro and wind generated electricity.
5 miles for one penny. Of course I have to import the parts from China to build the bike.
When A123 was in business, they would not sell their state of the art batteries directly to regular citizens, even though the citizens were subsidizing them. The Chinese will sell you whatever they have in stock. Cash and carry, no questions asked.
The way we do business here is messed up. Backwards. Very few of us even realize what we are losing when the great American innovations get crated up and sent to China. The Chinese way of doing business is working and ours in failing.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:12:00 +0000

Solyndra did not fail because of lack of government support or because of Chines imports, it failed because better technology came along which is simply the way business works. Don’t feed at the Fox news trough and you will make fools of yourselves!