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Old 09-07-2013, 11:49 PM   #80 (permalink)
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"...Once burned, twice shy..." breeds both caution & skepticism among both fans and foes.
It's interesting stuff ... I wish them nothing but the best ... but ... it is a long up hill battle , with many obstacles ... We'll see what happens.

What killed Aptera for me ... was long before the 'end' of the company ... For me it was the about ~64% or so of bloated increase in wh of energy per mile @ 50 MPH it got from prototype to the last 'production' version ... After that much bloat it was only about ~12% less wh/mile @50MPH than a OEM Gen-1 Insight ... ~12% is just not that big of a improvement for ~$30,000... we'll see how much wh/mile bloat happens to the VLC as it moves from prototype to production.
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