Hi All, Just watching NBC Evening News tonight had the Aptera with it's CEO? on and they went for a test ride. The problem was it couldn't get up a hill I assume was a longer one, the motors overheated and had to pull over to let them cool down. That is not good. Though maybe the heavy aero wheel skirts are not helping either if they don't provide airflow. This is a problem with hub motors as at such low RPM they have to use massive amps which of course makes massive heat but I'd thought they had worked that out. As I said my last post they need to go back to a geared rear motor and get rid of the hub motors like they had when they first designed it about 20 yrs ago. Even then they had problems with motor overheating so they gave me a call since I was doing the FreedomEV at the time, a similar EV but more conventional looking. Turned out they had geared it too low and increasing the gearing from 4-1 to 7-1, solved it.If I was them, I'd be making a backup plan of either front or rear geared drives. Jerry Dycus
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