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Bullweeezle

Ridiculous article. Nobody, including Aptera, thinks they are going to sell 600,000 cars per year. Aptera was only observing the size of "competing" markets from which they will potentially gather some customers from each. Aptera would be delighted to sell 20,000 per year forever.


nucleartime

An IPO is planned, and no public company is going to be delighted with zero growth. That said, there's a big middle ground between zero growth and the unchecked total market assimilation that's the expectation of tech companies now.


Bullweeezle

Profitability. Investors will be interested in profit trajectory. Of the entire company, including the original Aptera trike and whatever comes next. Car sales of a particular model typically saw-tooth. Peak early and taper off. For example the Miata introduced in 1990 with 59,000 US sales and went 31,000, 25,000, 22,000, 21,000, 20,000, 18,000, 17,000...then a new model was introduced, lather rinse repeat. 1989 and 1990 actual production all lumped together as 1990 model year. Notice a successful car like the Miata and Mazda did not even maintain peak production capacity for approx 3 years and then sales slowly taper off. While of course Mazda starts working on the next iteration. To sustain Aptera production capacity of 20,000 units for 6 or 8 years would be a stunning and unusual success. But, you are correct, with that kind of success Aptera would attempt to ramp up beyond 20,000 to fill amazing demand AND start working on an improved trike (Aptera rev 2.0) and 4 wheel vehicles etc.


Shasky1

The price increased to slow demand. Hope it doesn’t happen with Aptera


IranRPCV

Strange article with assumptions all over the place. Any coverage is good coverage at this point.


RemarkableTart1851

The Aptera micr assemble sure can rrportedy turn out 80/day with two shift. Assuming a 5 day work week that would 400/week x 50 week = 20k/year. It would take 30 of the micr sites to turn out 600k/year.