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Aptera Forges Strategic Alliance with CTNS to Build Battery Packs for its Solar EV

Electric Cars Report

Aptera Motors takes a critical step towards its goal to reach scaled production of its transformative solar EV with the establishment of a strategic alliance with CTNS.

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Aptera Selects EVE Energy As Battery Cells Supplier For Its Solar EV

Electric Cars Report

Aptera Motors announces EVE Energy Co., as a lithium-ion battery cell supplier. Specifically, Aptera will utilize Eve’s 21700 NMC 811 cylindrical cells in its vehicle’s structural battery packs. The impetus for 21700 NMC 811 cells–as opposed to other variations– remains Aptera’s efficiency-first ethos.

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Aptera Finishes Production-Intent Battery Design

CleanTechnica EVs

While we’ve done a lot of articles about Aptera (to the point where a few readers expressed this to us, so we’re cutting back on it), and even visited its facility and took some test drives, one key detail has still been up in the air: the battery pack. This is a key component to […].

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Cleaner EVs, Aptera, cheap gas and ethanol: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Electric cars are cleaner than gas cars almost everywhere. Battery-electric trains catch on in Europe. And will an activist strategy about oil stoke interest in Aptera? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Ethanol faces more challenges at the pump.

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Aptera raises $40 million to bring the first solar electric vehicle to market

Green Authority

What if you could simply park your car outside to be fueled by nothing but rays of sunshine? 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. Sounds too good to be true?

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Aptera, Arcimoto, & Solo Are Sliding Into The Abyss, & Tech Writers Should Know Better

CleanTechnica EVs

Maybe there will be an interesting book about Aptera after it inevitably fails. More likely it would be a moderately interesting chapter in a book about really bad ideas

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An Idea For A Crazy EV Trek, & What It Shows Us About The Future

CleanTechnica EVs

As Aptera gets closer to production, I’ve been thinking a lot about where I’m going to take mine to push it to its limits. I think this is an important part of telling the story of the first 1,000-mile rated EV, and it gives us a preview of what’s going to be possible as battery […].

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