Green Car Reports
MARCH 30, 2020
Is it a good idea to market an efficiency-focused car around oil dependence when national-average gas prices are headed toward $2.00 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.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 30, 2020
And will an activist strategy about oil stoke interest in Aptera? Electric cars are cleaner than gas cars almost everywhere. Ethanol faces more challenges at the pump. Battery-electric trains catch on in Europe. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
Electric Auto Association
JULY 5, 2021
The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We We have a lot of Tesla drivers in Houston because the oil execs see them as a status symbol with cool technology.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Aptera’s application for $75 million from the DOE’s ATVM loan program has sparked a debate not only over whether or not to recognize a 3-wheeler (i.e., Novelty vehicles are not really the ones that will help the US address the growing concern over US oil consumption,” said General Motors Co. Wall Street Journal. spokesman Greg Martin.
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 3, 2012
Aptera went under. Politicians hoping to exploit the moment spread the notion that American gasoline could flow bountifully, cheaply and forever were the boot heel of big government taken off the neck of poor oil companies. The Volt has had to contend with the overblown battery fire incident and the production hiatus.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 1, 2024
Its “deeper, hotter, and faster” strategy will start with old oil-and-gas drilling structures and extend them by blasting radiation from a gyrotron to vaporize the hard rock beneath. Aptera says it aims to begin early production in 2024, with the first 2,000 vehicles set to be delivered to investors.
Plug In Partners
APRIL 21, 2008
Ø The US House passed a bill that would extend a series of tax credits for renewable energy and energy efficiency and pay for them by eliminating or scaling back oil and natural gas industry tax breaks. This is the same bill that the House passed in 2007. The bill (H.R.
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