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 is back, with a new video showing its "production intent" car. No mention is made of when the car will be in customers' garages. It'll go 400 miles on a charge, and with solar panels plastered ...

Aptera, the company behind a highly efficient electric vehicle capable of charging from the sun, is about to go public, but its approach raises concerns. Is it the end of another solar car project?

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 ...

The troubled startup got a helping hand from Italy’s Pininfarina. The troubled startup got a helping hand from Italy’s Pininfarina. is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs ...

Building a car of any kind is not easy, and creating a vehicle from the ground up that’s unlike anything other EV on the market is particularly challenging. For more than four years, US-based startup ...

Aptera Motors has just successfully completed its first low-speed function test of its fully solar-powered electric vehicle. The PI2 doesn't have to be plugged in to recharge and instead gets its ...

It has been a long, twisting journey for Aptera’s solar-powered EV (sEV), but we can at last report that the extraordinary futuristic car has taken a huge step toward mass production. Regular readers ...

Aptera co-CEO Steve Fambro posted a data point this morning that neatly illustrates what his company has been trying to build for more than a decade: his solar electric vehicle was generating more ...