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Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles (electrek.co)
submitted 5 days ago by ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Aptera Motors has shared another exciting progress update video, giving us our best look yet at its production-intent solar EV out in the real world. The SEV startup recently completed the PI build’s first-ever road trip, traveling over 300 miles using an all-electric battery and free energy from the Sun.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This might be a dumb question, but I think it's worth asking anyway. How do they deal with the interior of the car getting as hot as a fucking blast furnace? Because if you leave a regular car out in the sun, it becomes like a fucking blast furnace when you open the door. Heat like that can actually cause interior damage, like cracking dashes and stuff. So if you have to leave this car out in the direct sun to charge, how do they avoid this problem? Like, I'm imagining you go to work, and your car is sitting in the work parking lot directly in the sun for hours a day. And it's collecting power to drive you home, but it's also massively heating up.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

...most cars are left out in the sun already

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And cars get far to hot already

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 26 points 5 days ago

So the answer is they deal with it the same way as every other car.

[–] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. So I'm guessing that means like the car might turn on and run the air conditioner for a few minutes every hour. Just to cool itself down. That's what it seems like anyway.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Using some of the incoming power to run the AC seems reasonable. Especially when the battery is above 75% charged. It would be interesting if the AC would go harder for more minutes per hour as the charge level gets higher.

[–] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I imagine just running the fans is adequate to keep the temps low enough to avoid damage and would use less power than the AC

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

They can use some of the solar energy to cycle the air using a fan, or just run the AC if it's really bad.