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Lightyear locks in €81 million from InvestNL to produce solar-powered car

Teslarati

Lightyear, the company introducing the solar-powered EV the Lightyear 0, has acquired €81 million in investment to aid production and development costs. At the same time, the company may face competition to introduce the world’s first production solar EV, and their match doesn’t have an unobtainium price tag.

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Aptera partners with Elaphe for in-wheel-motor technology

Green Car Congress

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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Blazer EV price cut, Dodge electric muscle, Rivian R2 and R3: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Which affordable EV regained its EV tax credit eligibility this week? Rivian on Thursday provided the most significant future-product preview since the debut of its R1 series trucks at the 2018 LA auto show. Rivian used the moment to pause (and delay) plans for its massive Georgia plant to get the R2 to production by early 2025.

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Tech: Aerodynamics Is the Key To EV Range

Clean Fleet Report

The purpose of cars is to carry people, preferably in a practical, safe and affordable way, so the constraints are quite different compared to a sports car or race car. It should be noted neither are in serial production. That is exactly what Aptera did–they basically took a drop shape and added wheels to it–though three, not four.

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“Never Charge EV” -1000 km Range Aptera Solar Car

Get Electric Vehicle

What if there is a vehicle you don’t have spent a single penny for fueling… guess what there is Aptera Solar Car. Aptera is an audacious startup with a vision to change the face of E-mobility forever. The company aims to eliminate the stratification in the EV sector by building affordable solar-powered Electric cars.

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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. Americans who have been waiting for an affordable, all-electric car won’t have to wait much longer. Others include the Fisker Karma, the Aptera 2e, the Coda sedan, Chevy’s Volt and Tesla’s Model S.

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

Plug In India

And they will need investment if they want to fund RnD and future product development. Increase production numbers. He said - if Strom maintains low numbers and end up custom building cars for their customers, they will never get into real production and will find their business becoming unsustainable in the long run.