Sixteen years after its first vehicles were supposed to roll off the line, Aptera has a reengineered car and big ambitions. There’s just one thing standing in the way. Nearly two decades in the making ...

Spoiler Alert: The low-speed function test is short and sweet but a milestone nonetheless. Solar EV startup Aptera Motors has finally given the public a look at its “PI-2” production-intent vehicle, ...

Some 20 years after it was first founded, San Diego, California-based startup Aptera has taken its solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) out on a proper 300-mile (~480-km) road trip – the first time ...

Solar EV startup Aptera Motors has announced a clever new demand lever to get more of the public to invest in its technology en route to initial vehicle production later this year. Starting today, you ...

A near-production model of a solar-powered car will be on display at CES 2025. Aptera Motors has announced that a “production intent” version of its eponymously named solar-powered vehicle will be ...

Aptera Motors, based in San Diego, CA, has just successfully completed its first low-speed function test of its fully solar-powered electric vehicle (sEV). The PI2 doesn't need to be plugged in to ...

The year was 2006. Electric cars were nothing more than vaporware, or just promising but limited one-off science experiments like the General Motors EV1 or Toyota RAV4 EV—and even those had been ...

Aptera has begun testing the production-intent version of its solar electric vehicle. It features a new inboard drive unit that ditches the hub motor used so far. Production is set to commence ...

Nearly two decades in the making, the otherworldly three-wheel Aptera is headed to production this year as a $40,000, 400-mile EV that can capture up to 40 miles worth of free solar energy every day.