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Karma GS-6 review, Aptera performance, EQS reveal, MX-30, hybrids before Prius: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Which plug-in hybrid isn’t staying on dealer lots because demand remains so strong? Which automaker has a Canadian compliance car with just 94 miles of range? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 16, 2021.

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Ford tops off 2023 with best-ever quarter for EVs and two best-sellers

Teslarati

Credit: Ford Ford was the first major company to make this commitment, and only Aptera, a small, solar-focused EV startup, was before it. Ford’s commitment, however, helped spearhead a coalition of EV companies and legacy carmakers to make the same choice. We have the products that customers want.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

“What’s so great about our meetings is the action they can inspire,” Hanson said, referencing a recent gathering that featured a representative from Aptera who spoke about the company’s plans to build a 3-wheeled, solar-powered vehicle. Kevin Douglass is an ambassador for Aptera,” Hanson continued. “As No Teslas allowed.

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Can The Federal Government Require States To Allow Direct Sales Of Cars?

CleanTechnica EVs

” Nobody has fun buying a car at a dealer. There’s an old saying: “When someone with experience comes across someone with money, the person with experience takes the money and the person who had the money gains experience.”

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Mercedes eSprinter review, Aptera funding, Tesla California sales, EV crash course: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

Aptera says it has enough money to push ahead with production. The efficiency-focused California startup Aptera claims it’s crowdfunded enough money to build its three-wheel solar EV. As a sales roundup released this past week by dealers in California pointed out, EV sales from franchised dealerships were way up 94% from 2022 to 2023.

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

Plug In India

As there are no dealers, and all sales will happen directly with customers, assuming a margin of a lac rupees per car, that will be Rs 20 CR profit per annum if Strom manages to sell 200 cars each year. We have startups like Arcimoto and Aptera who will soon start manufacturing and selling reverse trikes that resemble the Strom R3.

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Prevail Electric Mobility to Increase Their Production Capacity

Get Electric Vehicle

He said that the firm already has a dealer network and that the aim for this fiscal year is to open 50 flagship stores in India “assuming all goes well and there is no (additional) COVID-19 wave.” READ]: Top 10 Most Weird and Wonderful electric vehicles [WATCH]: Aptera Solar Car – 1000 miles range. You may also like.