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 ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Imagine a vehicle that can truly power itself with just sunshine alone. A Carlsbad-based startup says that the future is almost here. Aptera Motors is preparing to mass-produce what ...

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 ...

Solar panels camouflaged on its surface allow you to recharge the battery while the car is parked. This way it can store enough energy to travel more than 17,702 kilometers per year, according to the ...

Aptera has been trying to make its three-wheeled green car since the 2000s. After a demo at CES 2025, is it any closer? The ...

YouTuber Marques Brownlee drives the Aptera three-wheeler validation prototype, revealing many of its unique traits. The vehicle in the video is very close to what Aptera intends to put into ...

Aptera reports having secured access to $75 million in funding to bring its solar car to production as it is set to go public later this week. As we reported last week, Aptera is about to go public on ...

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 ...