When I was a kid cars where cool. There were lots of cars and not necessarily much more powerful than the rest, but each was cool in its own right. The older air cooled VW's and the muscle cars were still driving in their natural habitat. Then there were the hot hatches, the import tuners (even if their exhausts sounded like farts), and cars that were quite different like the Toyota MR2 and Pontiac Fierro and the Mazda RX7. Even minivans were cool since you could also go for a mid-sized Chevy Astro or Ford Aerostar. Or you could get a mid-engine super-charged Toyota Previa.
Most of those vehicles weren't the fastest nor the most practical. But they were cool and fun to drive in their own right.
Today we live in the CUV invaded apocalypse. If you want a vehicle you get a grey CUV. If you want to be cool you get a grey CU-EV. If you really want to really stand out you get a blue CU-EV.
Today's vehicles compete on screen size and how few seconds to 60mph.
What's cool about Aptera is they're trying to make an ulta efficient EV. This will help solve a lot of problems.
- A lot of people rent and don't have a way of installing a 240V level 2 charging system on the apartment. But if the car is efficient enough they could maybe get by with just running a 120V 15A extension cord to their car out the apartment window.
- If the car is ultra efficient you won't need such expensive quick charging infrastructure, lower wattages would suffice. Or charge up much faster with such chargers.
- Cars could be priced lower with smaller batteries and still get you as far or father than they can now.
All of these things would be the benefits of ultra efficient EV's. Or we can just keep driving lame, boring sedans and CUV's forever and ever.