Aptera Test Drive by Popular Mechanics Video

[admin]

This video is a test drive done by Popular Mechanics. It also include a nice little interview with the CEO and co-founder of Aptera, Steve Fambro. It's funny to actually see this thing driving down a public street. Steve also explains a lot of the technical details of the car including the extremely low drag. You get to see Steve explain about the solar cells on the roof of the car that helps augment the climate control system. It collects heat from inside of the vehicle and pipe it out the back. It keeps the car cool inside and fills in the last bit of weight turbulance to lower the drag. You will also see a bunch of other technical details shown and explained by Steve Fambro. This is a must watch video

[KarenRei]

Notice how he doesn't have to struggle to turn the wheel. Nice to see, given that there's no power steering. It's like people said, I suppose -- small, light vehicles designed right don't need power steering.

[Matthijs]

Originally Posted by KarenRei

Notice how he doesn't have to struggle to turn the wheel. Nice to see, given that there's no power steering. It's like people said, I suppose -- small, light vehicles designed right don't need power steering.

Well that's true when you are up to speed. But (as I said earlier in other treads) I think the Aptera's front tires can be a bit narrower. I would like to see 145/xx/xx tires for example. And the Aptera could loose some more weight.

Look @ this tread why I think this could benefit the Aptera.

http://www.apteraforum.com/showthread.php?t=79

I saw a video where you can see the driver use some muscle to turn the wheel when driving in the production facility. Luckily there are power steering systems that don't add allot of weight to the Aptera and use a minimum of power so it won't effect the range. Such a system is used in the Lupo 3L from VW for example.