Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Aptera this week confirmed that its solar-supplemented three-wheel production EV will offer a Tesla connector and corresponding charging equipment, both produced by the charging-hardware maker Lectron. The California startup's adoption of the Tesla standard, now called NACS, was already all but a given.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 27, 2022
California’s Aptera Motors today confirmed its battery supplier for its upcoming solar-supplemented, hyper-efficient three-wheeled cars: China’s EVE Energy. It plans to use cylindrical cells, in the same 2170 format that’s been used in the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, as well as the Rivian R1T and others.
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 23, 2023
Aptera details the first of its three-wheeled solar EVs due to have up to a 1,000-mile range. Tesla claims its heat pump is better. And Lightyear bails on its solar-car starting line and skips to the future. Lucid offers one of many expected luxury EV leases tapping into federal money. The Aptera Launch.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2021
Panasonic expresses some skepticism about the battery format Tesla sees as the future. Tesla’s putting its 94-mile Model 3 out in the open, in Canada. And Aptera’s “never charge” solar car goes to the track. Aptera’s three-wheeled. What did hybrids look like a century ago?
Green Authority
JUNE 6, 2022
That is the vision of Aptera; to make the most energy-efficient vehicle to date with solar energy. Well, the company has raised $40 million to bring its solar electric car to production later this year. The dolphin-belly design flows through the air, resulting in a lower drag coefficient than a Tesla Model 3 or the Toyota Corolla.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Tesla tops the sales charts in California by a long shot. The efficiency-focused California startup Aptera claims it’s crowdfunded enough money to build its three-wheel solar EV. To mix it another way, nearly one in eight Teslas sold globally were delivered in California. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The rebooted Aptera Motors has teamed with Elaphe Propulsion Technologies on a long-range, volume production electric vehicle powered by in-wheel motors. Aptera, initially known as Accelerated Composites, formed in 2005 to bring highly efficient, three-wheeled vehicles to the market ( earlier post ), went out of business in 2011.
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