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Crowd-pleaser: People stop to look at the Aptera parked outside a Starbucks outlet in Carlsbad, California

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Futuristic: The Aptera 2e electric vehicle is seen at an assembly line at the company's new facilities in Vista, California

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High hopes: Aptera co-founders Steve Fambro

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Roomy: Aptera programmer Robert Fleury writes code for the company's vehicle at their assembly facility

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Forward thinking: The interior of the Aptera. It is an egg-shaped two-seater often likened to a space-age car from the futuristic 1960s cartoon The Jetsons

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