APTERA factory tour 2023! INSIDER updates on solar, funding, and production timeline!! 

UPDATE: To address the “sparseness” of the equipment many of you had astutely pointed out, today Aptera announced that those automated robots “AGVs” have finally arrived! This is the next step towards large scale production! ru-vid.comwyhqxf9AfoE?feature=share

Well done. There's a lot of new details to be gleaned from this, both from what was (and wasn't) said and what I see in the background. This single video has given us Aptera nerds more info than the sum of what Aptera has released in months. If you go again, please record and render in 4K.

Nice work. As an investor in Aptera it’s been exciting to watch their progress toward production, and it’s clear they’re getting close to building and selling cars. Can’t wait to drive mine next year!

Best of luck to the Aptera team :)

I love her energy. It’s neat to listen to contributors outside of Steve and Chris. Hopefully, the behind the scenes team will receive more light. It gives a family feel. The guy with the fur hat gives a Elon musk feel. I’ll just have pizza. BRAVO

Great video! I firmly believe that Aptera's use of third-party software solutions like CarPlay and openpilot is a testament to their forward-thinking approach. Established tech companies generally produce superior software to automobile companies, and both CarPlay and openpilot are considered leaders in their respective classes. In my view, Aptera's integration of these third-party systems is a strength, not a weakness. 26:14

Great to see video footage inside the facility (even if it's 5-6 week old now). Nice interview. QA/QC on the solar panels looks challenging!

We did an impromptu tour, basically knocked our way in and I was vrey impressed with the openess you displayed. The Aptera speaks for itself.

Absolutely fantastic video! I may share this with my subscribers next week during my news video if you do not mind. Your questions had a lot of layers to them and the answers were very candid as they tend to be with employees at Aptera. Thanks!

I have Solar Power flexible panel on one of my boats. It's been very good. The charger continuously monitors arrary voltage and when it's high enough, activates and sends amps to the battery. Great camera work.

Thanks for the new look at the assembly area!

Good job !!! That's the interview and tour I've been waiting for.

This has been the best video I have seen on the Aptera. It was really informative and down to the nuts and bolts of the development. I believe the Aptera is getting closer to reality. I will own one for sure.

Lots of great nuggets of information. Thanks for showing us your Aptera tour. The interview format felt like a conversation that I would have had if I were there visiting Aptera. You had very good questions and comments. Shared and subscribed.

its ,. a good video ,. how can i order one ? thanks. keep it up guys.

"I'll just have the chicken tenders." 😅 Love the funny sweat shirt! Not getting the fuzzy pocket-hat.

I am a firm believer in Aptera and the entire concept. Also one of the minor investors so it's nice to see updates and progress.

Great video, thank you. Great job done by Audra and Cam. Very informative. Hope to be seeing and hearing more from Audra.

Very interesting to see their solar panel creation process more in depth.

Very fun and Very informative 😃 Can't wait to get mine, Thanks to you all for some awesome information.❤

Bitte macht weiter so, und vielleicht sehen wir euer Produkt auch in🇪🇺 Europa

Former Saddleback College classmate of Audra’s here - it’s no secret that I first heard about Aptera because of one of your tour guides. Just subbed, and it’s fantastic to see how much more like a factory Aptera’s HQ looks compared to even the time when Jack Scarlett of the Fully Charged Show test-drove the alpha prototype. Exciting to say the least.

Thank you for the tour! 🤓

Great tour and content, thank you!

The girl have a beautiful smile and is so cute!

Thank you for the video. Great camera work. One thing I like about Aptera is getting information and prospectives from various members of the team.

Excellent video excellent comments about everything in it I love the camaraderie of the staff, and the fact that she slept in the back herself! I ❤it.

I have been following Aptera since I found out about it a few years ago. I'm happy to see that things are still moving forward. I wish the team all the best. I have expressed several concerns about some design elements before. Things that seem to needlessly deviate from the norm, and could be off-putting to potential buyers. The big ones being the "hello kitty" steering yoke, the ball/nub/light assembly on the rear and the placement of the side-view camera screens. The steering should have the option of a more conventional steering wheel as most drivers will use hand-over-hand when turning a corner. That yoke, missing a huge chunk of the wheel will hinder that method of steering, and could cause a an accident when a driver goes to reach for the most crucial control of any car, and there is nothing there. That, and if you look at the current iteration, You can see Hello Kitty's face with two beady little eyes and a huge gaping maw, and her two ears sticking up at the top. (Sorry if you can not unsee it now.) I for one certainly do not want HK staring into my soul with a huge gaping maw, the entire time I'm driving. Blame it on pareidolia. Perhaps the steering column and wheel seen on the test bench will see production. Hopefully? Can you shed any light on that? Then there is the issue with the location of the sideview screens. Again drivers are accustomed to looking toward the location of conventional side mirrors when changing lanes of checking traffic behind them. The previous version of the car had those screen at each end of the dash, very near where traditional mirrors would be. I think this should be layout. An advantage of that would solve a third concern I have. That being having the speedometer, charge/range, and other practical vehicle info displayed in the normal location, ahead of the driver, rather than off to the side. Again, any word on that being considered? A fourth concern would be that nub on the rear of the car, where the plate light is housed. How long until that thing is snapped off of there when crawling in/out of the rear on a camping trip, or when loading, unloading cargo? You know that someone is going to go to get out of their Aptera camping package setup, throw their legs over the edge, and slide out snapping that ball/nub thing right off, or getting it nearly shoved into their nethers. Either way, not good. So I was just wondering if there is any word regarding any of those things. Thanks, best wishes, and have a wonderful day.

I’m so excited for aptera i already reserved one 🥳🥳

Great video, very interesting. Audra has infectious energy and did well explaining things outside her area of expertise. I don’t have the money for an Aptera at the moment, but hopefully in future I will. I would love to convert one of their future cargo vehicles into an efficient electric campervan.

Excellent encouraging engineering and development of what is an awesome vehicle vision brought into reality. Would like to see and have a small lightweight trailer with solar panels. Planning to be driving one in a few years. Wow such a good group of energy consumption conscious engineering. Outstandind!

She's a very good communicator.

Wow! Great info. Thank you for the interviews and for sharing the filming!

So informative. Great to learn about this. Can't wait to see them in Australia whenever that happens

Pretty much any ccd camera will pickup infrared, its one way to check if your remote controls are working, just point your phone camera at your tv remote and push a button you will see the remote led flashing. No special camera needed to pick up the panels I suspect.

Amazing video - well done

concerns: performance in hills, mountains. handling while the trunk area is loaded to max. no roll down windows? ac? seems the pv cells would fill out more area... perhaps an aux roll out flexible PV module? hot to heat?

So so happy to get my Aptera soon

Glad to see familiar turn signal and wiper sticks out of the steering column at 6:05

Awesome interview man!... just been sent here from Steve @ Aptera Owners Club. Great questions, info and personalities - Love it... also an investor & getting excited now 🤓

Hey Cam, that hat is a riot. And am am I the only one that noticed a company that doesn’t make ICE, has an employee named Cam 😜

Nice video! I am a Aptera investor and believer just like I was in Sono Motors in Germany. This factory looks like Sono was just before they ran out of funds for starting the mass production... (you need hundreds of millions for that) Producing prototypes is difficult. Mass production is infernal...

Hey I really enjoyed the walk through at Aptera. Really in depth and up close look at a component level. Thanks for sharing, Casey

Yo wait a minute, we aren't just going to skim past that "doors will open with a knock knock sensor"! are you saying, as long as you're within proximity of your car you can KNOCK on the door and it will open?! so will this involve electric/pneumatic auto open doors too or will it just be a "pops open" and you do the rest type deal?

Who is going to be the supplier for the lighting? Are they coming from Michigan I'm all in aptera no matter what. I see a bright light at the end of the tunnel for all the good people working for this beautiful new company.

Looking forward to my Aptera. Good to look around Aptera's development shop. Wonder when the design will be frozen? Looks like they are still doing development work. Looks like 2025 for mine, when a real production shop is operational.

350 mpg(e) is a higher estimate than they have offered previously. I'm wondering if there have been new simulations.

So cool. If it only had a bed behind, I'll turn it into a permanent house 😂. I'm building solar cells on my pickup truck for ranger ,but it turned out to be so much harder than I thought. Keep breaking them.Now I'm applying silicone behind the solar cells to make them water prove and copper tape to pump the heat from solar cell into the copper tape... Hopefully I'll be able to add motor on my pickup truck shaft to increase fuel efficiency...

young lady is well versed on the car and details. Bravo

Very informative. Nicely done!

I believe Tesla is putting detachable side-view mirrors on the Cybertruck. I was hoping that Aptera would do the same. Sounds like a possibility.

Glad to see knock knock hasn't been abandoned. Love that feature.

Cd of 0.13 is pretty great. Do we have any idea what the frontal area will be?

21:20 Perfect question, i thought of it , same time❤😊

I retired from Michelin tire company. Have you approached Michelin, BF Goodrich, or Uniroyal to make an efficient tire?

You have me at right to repair!

I love her voice!

I liked this. Saving Green membership is now a fact.

Good grief! I believe I can fit an 88-key piano case and small gig rig in the back of this! I did not think it would be possible, but this is a great piece of gear, folks.

If the 250 mile version isn't cheaper than $25,000 this company will have such a niche (small) market, because of the Tesla Model 3.

I note she says next year you will recieve your aptera, seems that is another bit of speel, production starts early next year is the generally accepted jargon they give.

Enjoy her enthusiasm. Seems she's not as confident in her knowledge of the platform and technology, but she seems like she'll be very good at her job as she develops that confidence.

The sentiment at 31:00 is so very important for the future.

for me the efficiency of the aptera is what interests me in EV's.

I like those red/orange accents. Wish the launch edition had that! Guess I could always wait, heh. (Probably will have to… gotta keep saving…)

When can I get to buy one in Norway? We have loads of Teslas here now so would be cool to see hundreds of these cruising around in our small cities.👍

Wow that's a really in depth video. How did you score this visit?

Ah cool the panels being made in italy will make it easy to have european production

This video is awesome and I'm excited to see the advancements of what Aptera is gearing up for in manufacturing. However at 20:00, I know this is nit picky but I really.. wanted to see the light bulb that 'simulates the sun'. Missed opportunity. Yes I'm being annoying. Thanks for the video.

20:20 SUN 🌞 BOX 😂❤

great work! thank you!

my buddy has one on order!

I’m an investor in Australia & am eager to receive my Aptera! Great interview 👍🏼

Very informative...thanks.. Waiting for my black Noir...

When are you rolling these out and beginning to produce your cars

If you blow a tire do you end up ruining that fender and is it difficult to access to take tire on/off

I've been following Aptera since the first time they failed. I was also excited about Arcimoto, and we know how that ended. If it takes this long to get a prototype, volume production will be impossible. It makes you wonder if these companies actually plan on going into mass production, or if they just hype it up as much as they can to sell to a bigger company.

This is very good video. It shows why companies don’t like to offer solar options. This is very time consuming and easy to go wrong with the solar panels.

Lucky guy 👍🔋☀️⚡️

thanks so much! now I don't feel the need to buy a ticket! ;-)

As long as there is some type of way to see what the computers are sending and receiving, im sure there will be a way.

So when was this recorded?

I would also love a high roof utility solar van I could bug out.

Audra's voice kind of sounds like Scarlet Johansson. 😍

You can make the panels whatever colour you want @19:02, me dont think so sir, postscript: yup he was talking about the background structure, my bad.

I am concerned about parking on the side of the street and hitting the curb as the wheel cover seems so low

My favorite is "sol." The front looks better and it's smaller than the new one.

How many MPPT inputs do you have. Is there one for each string or one for each surface?

I’m extremely interested in purchasing a aptera , I have tried several time to contact the company at the California office….. no one answers the phone then it disconnects . I have again sent several texts to their customer service team …. Again no response. I am not on any social media platforms. So that is why I attempt other avenues to speak with a person. By no response I have to wonder what type of service they offer after a purchase of a vehicle . So far I am not impressed.

nice work and good luck............dont forget frugality in your endeavours, it might help the birthing pains.

Do you know how I could tour the factory?

I think adding solar to a heavy vehicle won't do much, but what would, is adding a bunch to a semi trailer to power refridgeration.

Great video.

That factory has nothing in it. The automated robots "AGV's" simply are to move vehicles from station to station, but there are no stations, it seems like the money that has been raised should have purchased more than this by now. I love the car and the concept.

12:22 the shirt❤😅

15:15 ohh you could have Imtermediate battery for solar to charge up, then Boost that Voltage to Charge the Mains 🤓 ❤

Where is the low voltage battery stored on the Aptera?

Does the user app report the charge rate of the onboard charging system?

What day of the work week was this video shot?

What about Transparent Glass Solar Panels? Have they been in contact with the new solar glass companies? Also a solid state wind powered addition to the vehicle would be nice, it would look great as a spoiler. Keep up the great work! I typically like eVTOLs, but this seems to be safe and cheap enough to be financially viable.