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Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle (electrek.co)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Everything takes r and d. Also, it's not "custom solar panels" anymore if you're ordering 10,000 of them. The article stated that supposedly they have a ton of pre orders of sorts. Custom means a one off, or even a few dozen of something. Not thousands.

[โ€“] Cethin 1 points 3 weeks ago

Everything requires R&D, but doing more things requires more R&D. It's not just an EV, which requires it's own R&D.

Custom means it has one purpose, not that it's a one-off. No one else will be using the same panels they will be, so they don't benefit from the scale of mass-produced panels (and 10,000 is not a large number even if that's the number they have pre-ordered).