Aptera's three-wheel solar car harvests 40 miles of charge daily while drivers average 29, potentially cutting charging needs and technician work. Meanwhile, mobile tire services are booming, forcing dealerships to decide whether to compete in a low-margin business or risk losing customers.
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March 15, 2022.
29 miles per day.
40 miles per day.
A three-wheel solar-powered electric vehicle.
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We've got some good news.
This was fascinating to me by the way.
This article is called this solar powered electric vehicle never needs to be charged. So essentially there's a company called Aptera Motors, they're out of California and they have developed a three wheel vehicle that runs off of the solar power.
So you're saying they enjoy high crime and high taxes.
Yeah, I think that they're right where they should be. So essentially it says the average driver in the US drives 29 miles a day. Well, the average supply that a solar power car can accept in is 40 miles a day. So you never have to charge it. It's a really, really cool looking thing. It looks like a, I don't know, like a Jetsons type device.
Me, it looks like a Saturn. Remember when GMC made Saturn with kind of like what's the Polaris? It's like the three wheel car. It's like a cross between those two.
Okay, yeah, I see what you're saying.
Polaris, what is it called?
I don't know the name, but I know the thing that you're talking about. It's like a.
So almost like a fancy go kart.
Yes. But essentially a self sufficient vehicle. That's pretty interesting stuff.
So what happens when you go from gas or diesel to electric and then from electric to solar power, which is I guess electric, another form of electric. What are we going to, what are we going to do? Like how are we going to keep technicians busy?
Oh, that's a really, really good question.
Hopefully they break.
Yeah. Like maybe the insides and outsides and technology or maybe solar panel replacement every once in a while.
I'm gonna tell you how we're gonna keep them busy. Tires and alignments.
We do not do tires.
Nobody has figured out a way to fix potholes. Potholes are still a thing.
They might be worse.
Can you imagine? Like if there's like people out there get together and they're like, oh.
Let'S get rid of potholes.
Never.
That's good.
So it's interesting though to look up a picture of it if you're listening to this. But it's a cool looking. I bet you the thing's super slow.
Yeah, it definitely sounds like an around the town runner. But I mean I was just thinking about it. Like that's totally my type of driving. So it'd be really good for metro areas.
I could. Yeah.
I wouldn't trade Winston in for that.
No, there's no reason you would want to trade Winston in. You've done a lot of work With Winston. All right, so that's article number one in my second one. This is something we've actually, we've talked to some people that run these kinds of business and I think it's definitely important as dealers for us to recognize that this, that this type of service is out there. Car dealerships gauge tire installation as at home service demand surges.
Basically there's franchises out there that are selling the vans and I don't know that we need to mention specific franchises, but they're selling the vans that have the, you know, equipment on them to do tires and they're going to people to do the tires. Which just shows you like if they can sustain that without an alignment rack and they're just making a living on tires and like, should we get in the tire business? I know that a lot of our truck clients that aren't in the tire business, you're. Now is the time. You're missing a huge opportunity.
That's right.
Because the industry is changing and if you're not doing tires and alignments.
You'Re just letting a good chunk of retention and money go out the door.
Yeah. And that's kind of what the thing that comes out of this, I wanted to read this thing that we highlighted was. It says the growth of mobile tire installation services poses a dilemma for fixed ops directors. Do they cede the market to a growing number of already established mobile tire installers or make expensive investments in vehicle staff and equipment to compete in a low margin service sector?
I love the smell of rubber in the morning.
Yeah.
Tires, tires, tires.
More and more tires.
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