Uptera? Aptera? How Would I Know?

A couple of things look a bit strange about this piece, supposedly from CBS News on the three-wheeled EV for which the company has been raising capital from investors since 2025 without a single car ever to see the road:

The name of the company and its car, Aptera, is consistently misspelled and mispronounced “Uptera.”  Does that sound like a mistake that CBS and its gaggle of editors, proofreaders, and fact-checkers would be likely to make?

I’d also like to know why we’re still, after close to 20 years, interested in a manifestly unsafe vehicle with a range of 40 miles (if the sun’s shining).  Does that sound like something that American drivers want?

Another thing about American drivers: they don’t want to look like freakish morons.  Does the design shown above seem like something that someone (anyone) would like to be seen piloting around town?

If the investors who kicked in their dough in the year in which GW Bush beat back John Kerry to go into his second term had made a single dime, or could be honestly predicted do so at anytime in the future, this whole enterprise might have a bit of credibility.