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Who are those major automotive companies knocking on Aptera's door over their solar IP?

Steve Fambro, in his interview with the Dutch? interviewer said that major automotive companies are interested in their solar IP and announcements could come within six months about products in the automotive sector.

I think that someone in biz dev got an idea after watching Sandy Monro talk about the Sakuu printed solid state battery, which among its notable features are increased power density and impervious to shorting from a puncture. This means it could shot and not only not burn, but continue to function. Obviously, this battery has superb potential ... and a solid lock on the associated IP for manufacture of the batteries. That is also rather cool as this battery type is actually 'printed' without metal canisters which is one reason for its increased power density.

The key components to a solar generator are a battery and solar cells.

The combination of Aptera's solar IP and Sakuu's battery tech ip is a new product: The solar generator topper for SUVs that gives them a 10kw battery in an 'aero' topper that may improve vehicle aerodynamics ... that is not a hazard if the vehicle is involved in an accident.

Fact is, because of the hazards and additional weight and packaging of Li batteries, this was, until Sakuu came on the scene, a near impossible product because of weight. Anything other than minimal power of under a kw, would weigh too much and pose to great a hazard. But the Sakuu battery type is printed and can be printed in ways to fill the curved voids created by the aero-topper. The combination is a unique product: the mobile solar generator.

I think sooner or later the expectation of a significant number of folks is their vehicle is a power station. Aptera, by its addition of solar panels, literally morphs into a portable solar generator.

In assessing the market, you have to consider how many portable inverters from 300w to 3000 watt pure sine wave and not, inverters are sold. Every one - yeah I got one - is destined to be hooked to a 12v battery in order to mine 110v ac. Look at the trouble these folks have had to go through to get remote AC power! They've had to have a problem that they needed to research how to and discovered all the steps and actually executed by spending money for the various parts, cables, etc.

Now think of the people who, seeing these folks, would love to spring for a thing that makes it so you just expect to be able to plug into your car ... or SUV or pickup. I've got some 'art' of a pickup example I'll post later.

But as they say, "mark my words" this promises to be a hot product and - because Aptera and Sakuu both have more than a decade of IP protection for their inventions - everyone else will be playing catch up.

I was able to tease out of an AI art program these two renditions of a 'solar topper' . The idea of the long tail design is solar panels but also the concept is that the long tail design is somehow capable of diverting air from a trailer lowering drag. The trailing design presumably would also minimize turbulence in the bed when not pulling a trailer.
I chose these designs because they weren't aerodynamically stupid backward "C" designs that looked like air dams. Still, much wilder designs of the head 'crown' - kind of looks like the crown on an exotic bird - that might have side wings or other shapes that are designed to intentionally smooth and increase the aero for the vehicle.

The goal is that there is a design kind of like this that might add ten miles range to an electric pickup pulling a trailer. The added pitch then is that if you mess up, you have a 10kw solar generator to keep you from being stranded.