Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog

Last week Henry Blogdet and his team from BusinessInsider were at our office building for a video interview with Idealab CEO & Snap Chairman Bill Gross. Today it was published.

It is a fascinating interview where Bill shares his vision on renewable energy and how he has turned a dream he had when he was 16 years old to eSolar, one of the most promising green start up companies, that uses fields of mirrors to produce solar energy as affordable as fossil fuel-generated energy. Beyond that he speaks about Idealab, entrepreneurship and the importance of failure in the life of every entrepreneur.

Aptera Motors is an Idealab company that makes the Aptera 2e, a three-wheeled two-seater electric car, that is highly efficient.

This afternoon, after a few months of hard work on refinements and improvements, the Aptera team drove the latest model of the car to the Idealab offices.

The updated model looks really cool and is pretty comfortable once you get inside. I have noticed couple of cosmetics improvements since the last model was in our offices:

• Side mirrors were added (despite their impact on drag)
• The camera was moved to the roof. It projects its image on a small LCD display that is on the driver’s main mirror.  Image below.
• The solar panels on the roof, that are used to power the A/C fans, were redesigned and look beautiful
• Logo was added (it would be cool if it illuminates at night). Image below.
• the seats were cloth rather than leather (of maybe they have not brought the Limited edition)

I did not get a chance to drive it but did sit in the driver seat and took a close look & felt at the interior, but those who will attend the TED conference next week could drive it as two cars will be there.

Here are some photos of this very cool car.

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