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It’s with excitement and gratitude we announce we’ve accepted over $100 million in Aptera pre-orders and welcomed more than 3, 000 future owners across the U.S. and abroad into our family. 🌏 Read about the movement that’s happening:

When we launched Aptera a week ago, we were hopeful the world would see the potential of an ultra-efficient vehicle that can travel farther than any other and charge itself with the power of the sun. However, we never could have imagined the outpouring of interest and support that has followed our announcement. We quickly sold out of our Aptera Paradigm and Paradigm+ editions on the first day, and things haven’t slowed down since. It’s with excitement and gratitude we announce we’ve accepted over $100 million in pre-orders with over 3, 000 vehicles reserved by future Aptera owners in the U.S. and internationally. We’ll be ramping our production with a new facility in San Diego and two more development vehicles in the coming weeks, working towards our goal to begin deliveries in 2021 and early 2022. If you want to learn more about our mission, click below watch our video on YouTube (it’s going viral with over 500, 000 views and counting!) Our deepest thanks to all of the fans who have believed in us and made it possible to start this movement towards a more efficient future.

For those who like to bike while not getting rained on.

Hopefully they come up with a version with built in airconditioning for warm places. 😃

Sustainable velomobile with electric assist and weather protection.

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There is no doubt that the future of transport is autonomous. Tesla is already rolling out a beta version of full self driving and that will be released fully in 2021, I am sure. From robotaxis to freight transport, our lives will get easier, cheaper and more convenient and for those with current mobility issues, the change will be even greater. Here I look at some of the ways that all our lives, the environment and the places we live will change…for the better. I cannot wait…can you?

In The Mind Blowing Future Of Transportation — How Self Driving Cars Will Change The World, I will look at the future of autonomous vehicles and how they will change our world…for the better.

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Put a robot in a tightly-controlled environment and it can quickly surpass human performance at complex tasks, from building cars to playing table tennis. But throw these machines a curve ball and they’re in trouble—just check out this compilation of some of the world’s most advanced robots coming unstuck in the face of notoriously challenging obstacles like sand, steps, and doorways.

The reason robots tend to be so fragile is that the algorithms that control them are often manually designed. If they encounter a situation the designer didn’t think of, which is almost inevitable in the chaotic real world, then they simply don’t have the tools to react.

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Advances in supercomputing technology during the past 20 years are one of multiple reasons that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is confident that it can succeed in its Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) active flow control (AFC) programme.

For those who want to exercise both their arms and legs when riding a bike! 😃

Cycle using arms and legs for a full body workout.

More info 👉🏻 https://bit.ly/37gySGU

California-based Aptera recently opened pre-orders for its solar electric vehicle that ‘never needs charging’ and within less than 24 hours, according to the firm, the $26,000 car sold out.

The futuristic-styled structure is designed with lightweight materials, providing low-dray aerodynamics and cooling.

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“What our technology does is it improves range and lowers vehicle cost,” Campbell said. “It’s as simple as that.”

As the name of his company suggests, Campbell thinks the key is a more-solid electric car battery. The lithium-ion batteries powering almost all of today’s electric vehicles rely on a liquid electrolyte, which ferries charged ions from a cathode to an anode. While the technology makes it practical to charge and recharge, the liquid can catch fire if overloaded.

For decades, scientists have seen a potential answer in solid electrolytes, which could allow a battery to soak up more energy without overheating.

Here’s our best hope for hypersonic flight yet: the sodramjet.

A Chinese-made “sodramjet” engine has reached nine times the speed of sound in a wind tunnel test. The engine could power an aircraft to reach anywhere in the world within two hours, the makers say.

➡ You love badass tech of the future. So do we. Let’s nerd out over this stuff together.

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