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Technology for a Solar-Punk future.
Airships and hydroponic farms...
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Wow, are they finally going to turn this vaporware project into something physical?
Lol no, just trying to drag in another round of investor money.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071222065039/http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/11/aptera-motors-u.html#more
This grift has been going on since 2006, in which the company promising production since 2009.
Just another 20 million bro...
What is incredible is the stans who believed for 17 years.
Right? I remember seeing this thing in a Popular Science magazine when I was a teenager.
This thing's so old it was featured in the 2009 Star Trek movie: https://www.imcdb.org/v302430.html