Bamboo Apteras revisited

I’ve been talking (in actual reality) about this idea quite a lot recently… which is to say, I’ve been writing emails etc – which is what passes for reality around here.

And anyway – this turned up recently

Which is kindof what I’m about – but with a motor in it.

What these peeps are doing is creating clones of themselves (with a graphical style, unnervingly similar to the beardy “Joy of Sex” from the 70s)… teaching people how to make their own bamboo bikes (rather than shag beardily).

That’s the way it’s got to work I think. If I come by a million dollars, I’ll set up a kind of “Bamboo Aptera Think Tank” or a research institute or something… which collates and progresses the technology and techniques – and supplies vitamin parts – or sets up local “machine shops” to create local vitamin parts. It’s got to be a virus.

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Not sure where Aptera themselves are going mind. I’ve read 1/2 heartedly various forums and whatnot, and they appear to have fallen on the wrong side of the digerati. Partly because they still haven’t actually launched, partly because (as far as I can gather) they got new management in, cutting out the originators… something like that.

Here’s a video of people talking total shit about it, still talking about “America” as though they’re the market. They’re not.

But whatever. The digerati are (by and large) pisswits who don’t know what they’re talking about. I myself don’t know what I’m talking about, but at least I know I don’t know.

Aptera is still streets ahead of the others – check out the video. It looks like it’s in an ugly-bugly soap-box-derby in the carpark of the star-wars bar-scene. Apteras look like they have pedigree – the design looks like the product of a successful evolution, AND a significant departure from the status-quo. Their business approach however is the opposite – the product of a failed evolution which isn’t significantly different from the status quo. I read recently that the bailed out auto-industry spent a load of their bail-out money fighting emission standards.