Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Diego–based solar electric vehicle startup Aptera is making some pretty bold claims about its current prototype: namely, that ...

The California startup Aptera Motors believes its solar-powered vehicle could reshape the electric vehicle market.

Clearly, there have been more than a few stumbles along the way, but this week, the long-running saga got a new verse as the first validation models were assembled, bringing the EV one step closer to ...

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 ...

As Aptera gets closer to mass-producing its solar trike, it is now disclosing who are its main partners. Elaphe, for example, will make the in-wheel motors that will move the world’s most aerodynamic ...

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 ...

Sol, Aptera’s solar-powered front-wheel-drive autocycle prototype, out on a test drive in San Diego. Chris Anthony, co-founder and co-CEO of Aptera, is sitting at a desk talking loudly over the sound ...

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 ...

Aptera will integrate the Openpilot driver-assistance system with its electric three-wheeler, giving the vehicle, which is classified as an autocycle, tech similar to passenger cars. Openpilot will ...

Aptera recently provided an update on development of its electric 3-wheeler, releasing a pair of videos showing a test mule being put through its paces at California's Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. The ...

Aptera is teasing a new clean interior of for the latest prototype of its solar electric car with up to 1,000 miles of range. A lot of people get into electric vehicles for their efficiency, and there ...