The biggest problem with most electric cars is that they are adapted from conventional cars and you end up with something less than you started with. For example, you take a VW Golf, strip out the internals, add batteries and make it slower and heavier, with less range and fewer safety features.
The nice thing about the Google car, or Aptera as it’s correctly known, is that it is a purpose-built electric car and looks great. That’s important. When the ’64 Ford Mustang came out it was really just a Ford Falcon but it was the greatest-looking Falcon in the world. The fact that it didn’t have independent rear suspension and so on didn’t matter because it looked so stunning.
It was the same thing that saved the Cord 810 and 812 in the 1930s. They were unreliable but they were so beautiful, people saved them. That’s why so many remain.
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