The business model of Fisker, Tesla, Aperta, Solyndra and
many others seems to be to create a trendy “green” prototype and use that pretty thing to bilk investors, including the US Taxpayer, of start-up money.
Actually producing the proposed product is not part of the scheme, since producing actual products opens up all kinds of new problems that the company has no intention or ability to solve.
While I agree with your general hypothesis, I don’t think Aptera ever got any gubment money.