Brett,

Thanks for the announcement.

Should my wife and I buy a Nissan Leaf?

Why isn't Aptera selling cars?

I want electric, but still a bit nervous.

CL — Asked by Anonymous

The Nissan Leaf is an amazing electric vehicle built by a large trusted auto manufacturer.  They really pulled out all the stops to make this a reliable and technically cutting edge car.

I especially like the work they have done integrating charging with mapping/route planning via GPS.  This makes it very easy to plan your day so you can drive more than the 100-mile range.  Depending on your habits, you’ll probably use this for all your city driving, and then you’ll still need to own or rent a gasoline powered car to go on long trips.

I think these cars will really hold their value, so even if you try it out on lease for 3 years at only $350 per month, you can always just hand it back in and move on.

The car is slightly funky looking because the engineers were going for the utility of a large internal storage capacity, and reduced wind drag/noise.

My friend Paul Scott, a long time EV driver and advocate (see the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?) will be selling the Leaf in Southern California out of Santa Monica Nissan.  Check out his blog post about it here.

The Aptera project got bogged down with too many design changes, and my own opinion is that they will never deliver production cars.  They have missed their window to be first with a really clever looking car, and now they will be relegated to the back seat so to speak.

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