When will these cars be sold?

[foundit]

Anyone know what the schedule date is for these Apteras to actually begin selling? Is it scheduled for years from now or will it be soon? An answer would be greatly appreciated :)

[baily]

The typ-1 model is supposed to start selling in October 2008. You can reserve yours now with a down payment. Aptera will only be producing 3-4 cars per day when they start out, but by October of 2009 they plan to be producing 40 of these a day. The sales will begin in California where their first maintanance centers will be located. I assume it will spread to surrounding areas after that depending on how successful the sales in California go.

J Baily

[foundit]

October 2008 is the scheduled launch date. However I doubt any Joe Smo will be able to purchase one of these until sometime in 2010 unless you reserve one really soon. The production will take a good amount of time originally.

[evansm76]

Anyone know what the schedule date is for these Apteras to actually begin selling? Is it scheduled for years from now or will it be soon? An answer would be greatly appreciated :)
Does anyone know if Aptera is still on schedule to being production of the Typ-1e's in October 2008?

Regards,
evansm76
Aptera #1681 (Typ-1h)

[LQUAN]

I have been working as a design engineer for over 5 companies and handled countless projects. I have never seen any project that are due on time as scheduled. There are always delays. Engineers' schedule is always different than marketing and sales' schedule. And that is no joke.:p

[Dubito]

In today’s press release re: Aptera’s new VP, “Their first production model, the Typ-1, will be available in December 2008 at a cost of about 30K.”

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080423005330&newsLang=en

[evansm76]

Since they have not completed crash testing, they can't say their design is done, so that alone carries with it some schedule risk. Getting the crash testing done will take some resources and those resources could otherwise be used for getting ready for production.

On another thread, some were asking about options. The more standard the configuration the easier it will be to meet production schedules. I'm okay with no options at all (although I would like a red one :) ).

Cheers,
Mark
Corona, CA
#1681, Typ-1h