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Aptera production slated for 2013?

In an article written for All Cars Electric -
After The Auto X-Prize, What Next For Aptera's Electric Car? and posted on www.allcarselectric.com by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield dated yesterday, August 2nd, 2010, she states that....

"Fighting furiously throughout the competition Aptera, whose three-wheeled Aptera 2e is due to go on sale by 2013, has proven that it is capable satisfying the tough criteria of the Auto X-Prize."   full article link:

..So, I have paid a deposit for a basic Aptera 2e and the basic LEAF. The 'LAST' Aptera information that I have received, and I say that with a smile, is that delivery of the 'basic' Aptera 2e would be sometime in 2011 at a basic price of $25K.

Reading "due to go on sale by 2013"  took me by surprise to say the least.

I thought that I would try this email to clarify:

From: byplug.com 
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:23 AM
To: Marques McCammon
Subject: Re: More to - re-brew - on.

Hi Marques,
Hope this email finds you well,

"Aptera, whose three-wheeled Aptera 2e is due to go on sale by 2013?"

Say it ain't so!....?

REF: article in the press....
After The Auto X-Prize, What Next For Aptera's Electric Car?
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield August 2nd, 2010 
By Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield

"Fighting furiously throughout the competition Aptera, whose three-wheeled Aptera 2e is due to go on sale by 2013...."

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and...
 

From: Marques McCammon

Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:30 AM

To: byplug.com

Subject: RE: More to - re-brew - on.

No that is not our plan.  That would actually suck a lot!  I guess that they have lost confidence in our timing announcements….reasonable…that’s why we aren’t really doing them anymore.   But for the record our goal is next year.  By 2013 we should be working on round 2.

Aptera - New Home
From: Aptera Newsletter - August 2010 - Vol. 2 : Issue 6
image credit Aptera Motors

Aptera just completed the move into their new home, a 200,000 square-foot facility in Oceanside that's not far from the company's former headquarters in Vista. The new locale is large enough to handle production of the 2e and serve as home to all design, research & development and administration personnel.

"We plan to hold an open house at our new digs later this fall," said Aptera marketing chief Marques McCammon. "Stay tuned for more details."

(byplug comment: Go Aptera!)
 

Three words: "Oil, Marketing and Spin."
One phrase: "For the good of the company (Country)"

Three more words: "Change, Hope and Transparency."
... and now back to the first three words.
 

Speaking of same old sh&%:
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...

More and more, we, the U.S. public are told something -
.. and that "something" turns out to be completely different than what is really happening. 
Ask yourself questions. Question everything today. Plan. Surf the internet in other parts of the world.  Use your head. ... and speaking of that...
 

U.S. Jobs  - Mexico jobs instead - planned in 2008

Filed under:
Planning - NAFTA -  "You are living in today's U.S. jobs market with the the plans made in the past."  b.p. "..giant sucking sound to the south" r.p.

Mexico prepares for (Ford) Fiesta
Ford will build its new Fiesta subcompact car in Mexico, the firm announced Friday. - Article written back in June 2, 2008
By  Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / June 2, 2008

..some key lines from the article...

...Here in Mexico, the investment is expected to create 4,500 direct jobs and 25,000 others. Mr. Calderón said Friday...

...The announcement comes as the other major automakers, including General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Nissan, and Volkswagen have laid down massive investment plans in Mexico, building new plants, expanding production, and rolling out new models.....

(byplug comment: Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs......I believe that it is great for FORD auto company to build its autos in other countries 'FOR' other countries but, it should build its U.S. bound autos here in the United States with U.S. Ford workers. It's about Jobs ...and jobs..... NOTE: U.S. same as European model cars should be as fuel efficient here in the U.S. as they are in Europe! Fiesta to Fiesta Econetic.

                         FORD......wabos!.......really?

story link:
 

August: Filed under:
Planning - Corporations - Country or Global? Global rich.
Economic reports give stocks big start for August
By STEPHEN BERNARD (AP) – 1 hour ago
...and in the article....
....."The market rallied at the opening bell on upbeat economic news from China and earnings reports from European banks."   link to story:

(byplug comment: Really?....Really?...................................Really?)

NOTE: Planning - The United States needs a local commuter car, freeway speed capable, made in America that uses American energy dollars for fuel. The End.
Plan. Be a true patriot. Dig out of debt and get an electric car that uses American energy dollars.
 

DANGER -

Oh,   ..here is that number again today....

Bottom line: We (the United States) are not using American energy dollars and in some cases, not planning on conserving oil... for example in Europe since 2008..

...and in 2010-11 ...in the United States... well....

   p.s. RE: U.S. jobs....           ...hecho in Mexico.

Oh,   ..here is that number again....

Oil and banks ...things that make you say "hmmmmm..."

"hmmmmmm...." Plan. Be a true patriot. Dig out of debt and get an electric car.

"double hmmmmmm...." Plan. Be a true patriot. Dig out of debt and get an electric car.

back on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010...
Bank of America said first-quarter net income increased to $2.83 billion, or 28 cents per share, from $2.81 billion, or 44 cents per share, a year earlier.  "hmmmmmm...."

(byplug comment: in my neighborhood (SoCal), BAC controls an awful lot of the short sale and foreclosure residential real estate that is just sitting there, perhaps because of the CountryWide takeover.... and....it sits there......it seems really hard to get information on short sales and foreclosures and has forced some real estate agents to market other homes as "...and it is not a short sale or foreclosure!" ....
Q: With huge profits, is there any sense of urgency, do you really have to do anything with liability real estate in 'limbo mode' or just ....."let it ride". Can you say "big bonus". "hmmmmmm...." CountryWide BAC link

Plan. Be a true patriot. Dig out of debt and get an electric car.
 

Automotive X Prize:
Finals race results, officials closer to naming winners

One more time..

Announced.  byplug comment - 41K - Too much - LEAF will eat Volts for lunch.

GM to Announce Chevy Volt Pricing Tomorrow
   A start, yes, .... get a true plug-in electric.
 

100+ MPH Electric Motorcycles

Since the Empulse is a 100% electric vehicle, customers are eligible for government tax incentives at the State and Federal level, including a 10% Federal income tax credit.
link to Brammo

The technology is there.
Gary Francis said he believes the United States eventually will have to go to EVs.

"I just want people to understand that it's not about technology," he said. "It's about politics and fuel. The technology is there."   full story
 

Oh,   ..here is that number again....

Bottom line: We are not using American energy dollars and in some cases, not planning on conserving oil...
 

RE: Oil spill........ Now China? Link:

Get an electric car.
 

Nissan to make electric sports car?

Byplug posted this 'what if ' on the dreamer page tab about a year ago..

Wouldn't it be great if Nissan were to take the LEAF technology and put it in the Nissan Z package with a boost?   "Look Ma, no exhaust pipes."