Yaky

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here are a few other interesting green automotive startups that didn’t make it:

  • Sono Motors’ Sono: Compact EV with solar panels, power sharing, intended to be easily repairable and included a detail manual. They had prototypes but never went to production. Now the company does niche solar applications.
  • Workhorse: Series Hybrid (think Chevy Volt) Pickup truck with onboard power for tools etc (was announced around or even before Rivian). Was a very pragmatic idea IMO. Later sort-of resold to Lordstown. Now company does some other things, like drones.
  • Lordstown Motors’ Endurance: EV Pickup Truck with hub motors. Made a few hundred, but they have been dragging it out long enough for Ford to make electric pickups. And the idea wasn’t too original even when it was announced.