Ethan Sherbondy

Durham, United States ·

Member since Mar 2021

Investments & reservations 1

Aptera Motors

Grid-independent, solar-charging vehicles | The effi...

Capital R · Reg A+

Ethan invested $1,050

Aptera is the only motor vehicle that I can see myself owning. Throughout most of my life, I have viewed cars as a really destructive force in the world, and a blight on our urban landscapes. Aptera is the first “car” (ok regulators, autocycle) that has me feeling genuinely optimistic about the future of personal transportation and excited to own and drive every day. I have a ton of respect for Tesla for forging the path and essentially creating the EV market, but i don’t aspire to own a Tesla, as they have been needlessly reckless and destructive in their own way, from deceptively marketed “full self driving” to a consumer-hostile service model where people are not empowered to repair their own vehicles. Aptera is a true symbol of environmentally sustainable personal empowerment in transportation, with a first-principles engineering approach, and a consistent, clear ethos to forge a better path. They have gone out of their way to embrace eg the right to repair and have effectively created evangelists from their early community of reservation holders. The vehicle is a thing of beauty. Yes, it doesn’t “look like a car.” And cars don’t look like horse carriages either. This is a genuine step-change in transportation. I really view it as a generational shift in our conceptualization of personal mobility. The solar package is just icing on the cake. I’m excited to support them in the limited capacity I can as an investor, and really cannot wait for the day that these start coming off the line! over 2 years ago

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