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CA is the most expensive place in the world to manufacture. They have done a very good job of making the state undesirable and unreasonably expensive for industry. Taxes, real estate, energy, state regulations, it's all WAY more costly than ANY other state. Any company is very smart to think twice about starting production there. Many established companies are also moving else ware to save costs. It's not BS, it's just the way it is.
6 months to take concept to production is unrealistic for most any product, especially something as complex as a car. This type of underestimation is VERY common and can be costly. I hope they can keep it together. It sounds like they are moving forward.
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Any podunk welding shop can crank out trikes, and they are- motorcycle-trike conversions.
Aptera is a trike. It doesn't need to meet all the Fed standards for cars; in the eyes of the Feds it is a motorcycle. It should be relatively a piece of cake to put a new motorcycle on the road. Even the dummies up the road at Polaris did it.
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Honestly, who IS going to buy a 3-wheeler with restrictions, outside of niches like ecomodder ?
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Trike conversions seem to enjoy healthy sales in spite of their ridiculous pricing.
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Trying to build anything like a car in California is a recipe for failure.
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Isn't there lots of road-going stuff that gets built there? Off the top of my head I think of Zero electric motorcycles...
