{"id":7447,"date":"2010-02-06T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:08:56","slug":"aptera-founders-no-longer-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7447","title":{"rendered":"Aptera Founders No Longer Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aptera-typ-1-300x180.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aptera-typ-1-300x180.jpg','popup','width=300,height=180,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aptera-typ-1-300x180-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Aptera-Typ-1-300X180\" \/><\/a>In November <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aptera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aptera Motors<\/a><\/strong> founder <strong>Steve Fambro <\/strong>told <strong>Popular Mechanics<\/strong> that contrary to rumors he was not <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6774\" target=\"_blank\">ousted from the company<\/a><\/strong>, he was simply on vacation until the end of the year. Well, the end of the year is over and now according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/green.venturebeat.com\/2010\/02\/02\/ev-maker-aptera-in-disarray-as-founders-fade-away-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venturebeat.com<\/a><\/strong> Fambro and his partner <strong>Chris Anthony<\/strong> are no longer employees of the <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> based electric car manufacturer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Fambro and Anthony have retained their seats on the Carlsbad, Calif. company\u2019s board of directors, they have little say in day-to-day decision making, even though it was their original vision. These responsibilities have fallen to Aptera\u2019s new CEO Paul Wilbur \u2014 one of the main sources of conflict with the original leadership team (though it remains uncertain why the rift occurred).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They certainly dragged that exit out as long and as corporately correct as they could, didn&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/green.venturebeat.com\/2010\/02\/02\/ev-maker-aptera-in-disarray-as-founders-fade-away-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venture Beat<\/a><\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/01\/aptera-co-founder-officially-an-ex-employee-back-in-the-garage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autoblog<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?s=aptera\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbadistan<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November Aptera Motors founder Steve Fambro told Popular Mechanics that contrary to rumors he was not ousted from the company, he was simply on vacation until the end of the year. Well, the end of the year is over and now according to Venturebeat.com Fambro and his partner Chris Anthony are no longer employees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7450,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}