Aptera, Lightyear and Sono Motors' Main Link Is Not Being Solar, But Rather Being Startups
6 Feb 2023, 11:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / They emerged when there was easy money flowing around and the perspective of profitable IPOs, but those times are now gone
Aptera Believes It Can Sell 600,000 Solar Trikes Per Year, But Does the Math Add Up?
2 Feb 2023, 15:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company disclosed on its investment page that it believes its potential customers are bikers, couples that ride together, and energy-efficiency advocates
Aptera Gamifies Fund-Raising Process To Obtain More Than $20 Million
28 Jan 2023, 18:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company disclosed a new way to buy the Aptera Launch Edition: those putting down more than $10,000 earn an earlier spot on the line
Aptera To Offer DC Fast Charging Because Its Solar Trike May Use Superchargers
24 Jan 2023, 18:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The minimum speed will be 40 kW, which may add 400 miles to 600 miles of range per hour despite some troubles that this may represent
Aptera Launch Edition Has Everything Set for Production Start Except for $50 Million
21 Jan 2023, 13:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company will hold an investor’s webinar to try to raise the money that it still needs to buy equipment and start making the world’s most efficient vehicle
Aptera Delta Makes Us Wonder Why the Startup Decided To Use Tesla as a Role Model
1 Jan 2023, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The final design confirms all controversial design elements the final vehicle will have, and that may make it worse to drive
Aptera Will Repeat Steering Yoke and Gear Selector Mistakes Made by Tesla
21 Dec 2022, 23:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The yoke steering has more than one turn lock-to-lock, and you can only select gears on the vehicle’s central screen, which probably comes from Tesla
Aptera Delta Update Suggests the Solar Trike Will Also Be Built in Europe
20 Dec 2022, 17:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At first, we thought C.P.C. Srl would only produce the carbon fiber components for the car, but it will apparently also assemble some units
Aptera Says That It Will Use Tesla's Charging Standard, to No One's Surprise
2 Dec 2022, 10:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lectron will produce the charging inlet and EV charging equipment for Aptera. It is not clear yet if Aptera vehicles will use Supercharging stations
Aptera Details All Production Stations Set To Manufacture Its Solar Trike
20 Nov 2022, 21:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It takes 13 stations for the Aptera to turn into a complete vehicle and head to shipping in a reasonably simple production process
Aptera Has 37,000 Preorders and States Its BINC Parts Will Be Made By C.P.C. Srl in Modena
4 Nov 2022, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BINC is a statement about how different the Aptera is from conventional cars. Instead of a body-in-white (BIW), it has a body-in-carbon (BINC) structure
Aptera Will Get Its Automotive-Grade Curved Solar Cells From Maxeon Solar Technologies
4 Oct 2022, 19:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The improvements the company developed to use these photovoltaic cells in the solar trike may even help with regular solar panels
Aptera Gamma Received the AirShaper Treatment to Have a 7% Drag Reduction
23 Sep 2022, 19:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / AirShaper’s CEO told us that, If it was not for design and manufacturing concerns, the aerodynamic improvements could have reduced drag by 15%
Lightyear 0 Will Be the World's Most Aerodynamic Production EV Until the Aptera Arrives
15 Sep 2022, 09:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we checked, the Aptera had a drag coefficient of 0.13, while the Lightyear 0 presents a 0.175 figure, the best one for a four-wheeled vehicle.
Aptera Gamma Solar Electric Three-Wheeler Prototype Unveiled in San Diego
11 Sep 2022, 07:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The solar electric vehicle with an alleged 1,000-mile range will enter mass-production in 2023, top prices reach $50,000
Aptera Reveals First Official Images of Gamma Prototype – They Show the Trike's Interior
8 Aug 2022, 15:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Gamma iterations are equivalent to pre-production cars, while the Delta cars will be the ones reaching Aptera customers
Aptera Inks Deal With Elaphe, Will Eventually Have In-Wheel Motors Made in the U.S.
22 Jun 2022, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Slovenian company will initially manufacture them in its home country and later produce them on American soil as demand increases
Aptera Will Reveal Its Gamma Prototype in Four Weeks: Check the First Images
15 Jun 2022, 11:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company disclosed nice updates in a webinar on June 14 and said it had already received more than 25,000 orders for its solar trike
Aptera Promises Gamma (Pre-Production) Vehicle Will Be Presented Very Soon
2 Jun 2022, 11:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Gamma vehicles are the last stage before Aptera can manufacture and sell its solar trike, which it plans to do by the end of 2022.
Aptera Finishes Production-Intent Battery Pack Design and Tells Us More About It
14 May 2022, 12:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The entry-level Aptera will have 41-kWh battery packs composed of six modules, each of them with 416 cells for a total of 2,496 batteries.