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1,000-mile electric car unveiled: Aptera returns 10 years later

Green Car Reports

The world's auto industry seems to have settled on 200-plus miles for North America and 300 kilometers (160 miles) or more for European and Asian markets. What's the minimum necessary range for an electric car? The longest-range 2019 Tesla, the Model S Long Range, gets an EPA range rating of 370 miles.

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Aptera’s brand ambassador program is very on character

Teslarati

Aptera’s online marketing strategy includes a brand ambassador program that is very on character for the brand, to say the least, as it highlights the very specific cross-section of people who are interested in the company. Aptera has prided itself on its weird nature from the beginning. Aptera has chosen a different approach.

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Aptera: There’s Something Coming, But We Can’t Tell You What

Green Car Reports

In the electric auto industry there are three types of car companies: Those who bring a successful electric car to market, those who bring an unsuccessful electric car to market, and those who perpetually claim their ground-breaking electric car is “coming soon” California-based Aptera motors is one such company.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Others include the Fisker Karma, the Aptera 2e, the Coda sedan, Chevy’s Volt and Tesla’s Model S. Others include the Fisker Karma, the Aptera 2e, the Coda sedan, Chevy’s Volt and Tesla’s Model S. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News.

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Electric Car Watch #9: Where is the Strom-R3 electric car?

Plug In India

Strom should take money from investors who are not from the auto industry. We have startups like Arcimoto and Aptera who will soon start manufacturing and selling reverse trikes that resemble the Strom R3. Even the redoubtable Mr Chetan Maini couldn't save his baby. Open Strom Rental/Experience centers in 4-5 major cities.

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Goodbye GM, Hello Tianjin-Qingyuan Electric Vehicle Company?

Plugs and Cars

nk, Fisker and Aptera, for example, would get cars on the road and allow the plug-in project the chance to more quickly advance to economic viability without the legacy burdens carried by the majors. And these days a billion dollars is barely a rounding error in the money going to prop up the American auto industry.

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EVs from these brands will soon use the Tesla NACS charge port

Baua Electric

Ford wasn’t the first to announce its allegiance to the Tesla port; that nod goes to California firm Aptera , which confirmed in November 2022 its three-wheeler would include only NACS. But Ford’s commitment was, for the auto industry, the turning point.