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Aptera receives new $21 million grant as it nears production readiness

Teslarati

Aptera has received a new $21 million grant from the California Energy Commission to help it achieve production readiness. As is the challenge for most EV startups, Aptera has been on a non-stop quest to secure capital to start production of its launch edition vehicle. Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Aptera's hyper-efficient, solar-charged car: Does $2 gas change its appeal?

Green Car Reports

A video recently last Tuesday by Aptera takes exactly that angle—introducing the company’s electric three-wheeler in light of international conflict and climate change, as related to the oil.

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Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right: Adventures In Multiplying Hype

CleanTechnica EVs

If a firm is adding hyped complexity, they are aiming at credulous wallets, not deliverable solutions.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15. How will the pressures of climate change, limited fossil fuel resources and the mainstreaming of "green" consciousness reshape society? How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? Follow the money.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Larry Burns, GM vice president for research and development and strategic planning: "Whether your concern is energy security, global climate change, natural disasters, the high price of gas, the volatile pricing of a barrel of oil and the effect that unpredictability has on Wall Street - all of these issues point to a need for energy diversity. (

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