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Respect for this approach. Great for Australian outback, you'd never get stranded.

Thanks for posting this, Mr. Zac!

this product will drive other satellite based telecom company out of business. the costs are so low.. it can be used anywhere.. beware of putting pennies in the fuse box when a life is on the line.. awesome idea.. awesome potential.. dirt cheap satcom is now on a consumer grade level. echostar is going bankrupt. viasat is teaming up with inmarsat. whoever gets there first is the winner. seems to be starlink. the only thing winning with the last mile outside town usage is the new 5g cellular offerings to pull back some customers from starlink. 199$ starlink mini.. beats 199$ strigo at 250$ for 250mb of usage a dollar per meg.

If the price will be affordable, people will switch now. £75 is way too much.

Stil residential cost 75£ mech 30£ and i will take

the future is more charging stations with solar shade parking.

You almost lost me when you tell me it is simple to change a Timing Belt!! Ok, ok, I said, almost.

Every time I see one I like it more… Saw 5 today in Los Angeles….

Awesome content

For me it's all about freedom and independence.

As a reminder to any DIY solar project cleaning or repair. Solar is always "LIVE".

If only there was a Easy to use solar car charger, from solar to a 400v battery pack. I would add it to my smart fortwo and make a roofrack with solar. even if it charges 5 km a day I would be glad.

5:23 Sandpaper voice crackle. Ouch

A willingness to be more hands on with solar completely changes the entire value equation from not worth doing to absolutely worth doing right now. A 30 grand solar project turns into a 8 grand project and payback becomes 3 years instead of 10. Once the 192wh blade batteries become affordable we will see an explosion in conversions of gas cars with enough density to get a few hundred km from a pack that fits in the boot for under 10 grand.

Do they have a product for sell?? Can’t find any on their website.

Everytime I see the Sion from Sono Motors I am close to tears. I miss this car so much. You guys forgot to mentioned the X-Bus from Electric Brands. But the company get bankrupt this year.

So to be clear. Aptera solar provides 40 miles range at an average speed of 24 mph. If you drive an average of 60 mph you will get about 7 miles range from solar. The 1000 mile range also assumes an average speed of 24 mph.

As you said until you build a solar vehicle yourself, you really don’t really know there is this big sun…free power. I felt the same way years ago when I started sailing… there really is this free power called the wind…you just need to learn how to advantage the power…sailing is freedom, it’s the most exciting 7 mph you will ever experience.

Amazing podcast, thank you so much!!

No way it's radfoo! :D

This opened up a whole new world to me. I ran into a snag regarding 4 wheel drive. I was thinking off the top of my head, what if I have 2 wheel and assistant motors for the front wheels added that kick in when needed. I would really love a 4x4 camper for beaches and reclusive locations. I am going to have to spend tomorrow going over this estar van you talked about.

I am the Highlander. I really don’t want to hear a new story about a Highlander getting crushed.😂😂😂😂 PS kindness is always free

It would be nice to dream that one day there will be a solar car with a good range. There is no need for a charging station.

Have you read about pleated panels? I hear they're more efficient than flat ones over the course of a day.

Impressive indeed, you can show aptera how its done. Why not partner up with aptera ?

Having owned several old busses one thing they don’t need is weight up high

Why do you do that how can you sit there and profane on front of yourselved let alone in front of your listeners im totally embarrased for you

Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 ✌ ☮ ❤

I traveled from Germany last year with a balcony solar package on the roof of my car (800 Watt & grid tie inverter - available on mainland Europe, criminally banned in UK) and set it up on my mum's roof. She now, because she is from the frugal generation and unplugs things at night, has a zero leccy bill! I literally 'solar powered my mum'! 🙂

140w panel for $900 no thanks you keep pushing those to your celebrity market. I’ll stick with the market priced

Stupid idea

New esprinter has a range of 270 miles articulated array on one of these would be awesome. Aptera will be offering their solar cells for design and installation on whatever project you could build as a side business to their ev which could be a nice lightweight towable vehicle for rvs

Everything is solar powered, it doesn’t have to be with solar panels, food we eat, energy human body generate by using glucose produced by plats, wood we use to build or burn, all of these are solar powered, without sun nothing will exist.

7:44 Hmmm... don't believe that. Lets just say they could get that van down to 400 Wh/mi in efficiency. Your are telling me that this van has enough solar panels to grab 40 KWh a day? Aint no way mah boi. You aint got to lie to kick it.

You're either going to be encumbered by a gas station or encumbered by clouds and darkness. And this comes from a guy who lives FT in a motorhome with over 5,000 watts of solar that I designed and built myself - but I wouldn't rely on it as the sole source of propulsion. It's sort of like having a sailboat. When the wind stops so do you. It's really just a math problem. I have 8, 550w panels (4,400 watts) on my roof and a 620w liftable array on the side of my MH to charge 23.5kwh of batteries, but this just supplies my electrical needs for everyday living, not propulsion. If I had a 44ft motorhome I could fit 2 more 550w panels on the roof. If I did the same to each side to make 2 liftable arrays for a total of 30, 550-watt panels of 16.5 kw it still only put out 60-80kwh a day on avg. How far could say 70kwh a day propel a 35,000+ lb. motorhome? Then you would need at least twice that in batteries (roughly twice as much as a Tesla car has). And what kind of range would you get from this? The Tesla 18-wheeler Tractor is said to get 1.7kwh/mile, so let's say you get three times this as the RV would be much lighter. 70/1.7 x 3 = 123 miles/day recharge rate. You would have roughly a 250-mile range (if you had 150kwh in batteries batteries) for one day and then take 2 days of sitting with panels deployed to recharge what you use in a single 250-mile day - that is if the weather cooperated. You could add more batteries for more range, but it would be pointless as it would take too many days to recharge, making road trips impractical. This project would easily add another $100k to the cost of the motorhome. I think if solar panels got to 35-40% efficiency and the energy density of batteries doubled - but the cost of both dropped by half, it might be feasible at a future date, but I don't think consumers would accept the limitations of the concept just yet.

I have worked pretty hard to find the CZcams channel for you guys But I couldn’t find it Could someone please post a link?

@31:46, Starved Rock, Hey, I grew up there!

"Pave the streets with gold." Jesus To mitigate the Earth's increasing double torus magnetosphere due to it's orbits passing between the two energies of the Sun's Oort cloud magnetosphere. Or put permanently sympathetic magnets to the fermie cells of the earth sun galaxies magnetospheres and precious soft metal magnetic separator coiks underneath cars and trains to siphon of the Earth's increasing magnetosphere. These are just the birthing pains. The first of Noah's cataclysmic East to West tidal wave deluges will be pulled out and around the planet by the new moon with the first major conjunction of mercury and Venus in 2033 and every 40 years thereafter. Jesus is the truth and only way to have life and life more abundantly on his father's planet.

Tapered wheel might help. Check out train wheels.

I hope they upgrade the brakes on their vw conversion. I have scary memories of driving in the Sierras and having the brakes getting so hot on the downhill that I could feel the heat coming off them in the drivers seat. If you added a few hundred pounds of panels and batteries it would be insane.

I love the solarrolla estars. I’m just curious about the real world range. According to data the new one has 5kWp of solar… The data I have is about 2,5kWh/kWp on an avarage day (numbers are from Germany). So that would be 12,5kWh a day… An electric vehicle like the E-Star got to use at last 25kWh/100km (62 miles)… so it would be about 50km (32miles) what is great, but for a road trip I’d need a minimum of doubling it… The claimed 200miles id love to see… not even in California with its sun… But I love the technics and love to see more. And I know from the route del sol E-star that solarrolla didn’t even tap into the dc Batterie direct, what would to my knowledge be more effective.. Also id love to see a rivian Van converted, with solar.

Absolutely love the video and education. Got a lot more good info than i was expecting 😄

When nature fights back.

A nice usecase for future multijunction solar cells.

This video is stupid. Peter was paid to meet certain parameters in the company. Sales being down has a lot more factors like interest rates etc.

articulating ie spelling out words, but try a solar powered airboat glider, with at least 16m^2 solar wing surface area, with high low weight lift, yep delta wing hang glider, instead of narrow wide wings, but those wide narrow wings would be easy to fold on top of the car, in segments. current commercial li-ion and lead-acid batteries cost too much.

Have you looked at the Stella Vita which is a solar camper ? It was designed by a group of students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. There are a number of videos of it on CZcams. How about looking into the Bike Boat Camper --- BeTRITON (Z-TRITON 2.0)? It is also on CZcams.

imagine live stream in teh middle of nowhere🤯🤯

I so want this. So many diesel campers are being taken off the road because of legislation so a camper is the perfect candidate for conversions with solar panels. Being sat in a natural setting for a few days while you recharge just from the sun is the dream of every vanlifer.

Zac and Jessie: please subtract profanity from your presentation vocabulary.