Aptera Officially Announces It Will Use The Tesla Charging Connector

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In some ways, this is hardly news at all. Since Aptera re-emerged in 2019-2020, all of the vehicle's prototypes have had a Tesla plug that hides behind the autocycle's small license plate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjUdTJjiNk&t=174s At the

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In some ways, this is hardly news at all. Since Aptera re-emerged in 2019-2020, all of the vehicle’s prototypes have had a Tesla plug that hides behind the autocycle’s small license plate.

. Why? Because they think the J1772 and CCS plugs are large and cumbersome, expensive, and otherwise problematic. So, they asked Congress to mandate the Tesla plug as the national standard. While the petition did manage to get 40,000+ signatures , it was also panned in EV media and among non-Tesla enthusiasts as a publicity stunt or even an attempt to get Elon Musk to buy Aptera.

But they kind of buried this announcement. In a Thanksgiving email to investors and reservation holders, the company announced a lot of other things, and left its official choice of the Tesla plug as sort of an afterthought. “We are willing to bet the buzz you generated around the petition played a part in this, and we look forward to incorporating NACS in our sEVs. Thank you for challenging the status quo.

I’d bet that the license plate is already a design compromise, but one that’s necessary for legal reasons. So, by hiding a little Tesla connector back there, you’ve got room to stash it away behind the plate with zero additional aerodynamic penalty.Tesla already has software capability ready to go to support the charging of non-Tesla EVs at Supercharger stations, and other companies are starting to offer charging with the Tesla plug. That’s really not a problem.

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'vehicle’s prototypes have had a Tesla plug' No; car has jack / outlet.

Lol, when you have access to Tesla’s supercharger network, the need for a CCS adapter is near 0. I’m sure there might be a handful of places in the country you’d be better served by some non Tesla fast charger. But i guarantee, its a rare case. In 90k miles, I’ve never needed CCS

ByeonChansoo As if I didn't already like aptera_motors enough.

Tesla released it, now anyone could do this. I hope there is some sort of software for the bms that was dumped too.

Shouldn’t that be the North American Charging Stabdard? NACS

Smart move by Aptera.

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