Aptera: Right to Repair

What? A car company that wants the owner to be able to fix their car? That designs a vehicle without barriers? Given they don't have dealerships everywhere to repair them it makes a lot of business sense. But it also really grabs the attention of DIYers.

From the Aptera website: Right to Repair and another page. Not sure how this is different from just getting parts from an autoparts store and swapping them out other than building with the idea to not require special tools and making diagnostics easy..

The right to repair is about ensuring that manufacturers do not intentionally design systems or implement methods that prevent individuals with the appropriate tools and expertise from repairing their products. It's not about making repairs so simple that anyone can do them, but rather about removing unnecessary barriers that keep knowledgeable users from maintaining, fixing, or upgrading their devices. This principle advocates for access to the necessary tools, parts, documentation, and software required to perform these repairs, thereby empowering consumers and independent repair shops to service their own products.

Like John Deere putting chips in hardware that had no business with electronics simply so you couldn't replace the part with an aftermarket one. Parts like a wheel hub.

This was interesting, Ford is allowing EVs to be sold at any dealership, they no longer have to be "qualified". Wonder if that means "unqualified" repairs?

That went just as well for Ford as it did for GM with Buick.