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Chairman-Dao t1_jea4r7j wrote

Reply to comment by GundamMaker in Aptera’s Solar-Powered EV Is Finally Finished—and It Looks Just as Bonkers as the Concept by elister

Everything about it is cheap. They’re using the cheapest motor tech, cheap materials, cheap suspension. The road noise is crazy.

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ThomasJWaldmann t1_jebbays wrote

They are even using cheap carbon fiber!!1 :-P

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themagicbong t1_jebomix wrote

lol you joke, but from my experience carbon fiber comes in two varieties: expensive and ungodly expensive lmao. The pre preg stuff that has resin already in the material is what I consider the ungodly expensive stuff, and the dry stuff that's intended for wet layup is STILL pretty expensive. Fiberglass is so good nowadays itll get you like, 90% of the way there at like 1/10 of the cost. Fiberglass parts can be every bit as strong as the carbon ones, though obviously the diff comes in the weight, which is still pretty close between the two.

Always makes me scratch my head when I'm making a part or see a part made outta carbon where the application is not weight-critical. Which happens a lot more often than I thought would be the case. Then, even funnier, is when the part is half-assed and they end up using more resin and not even gaining any weight savings from the material.

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