An all-wheel-drive version is planned for the future, adding another motor that powers the single rear wheel. While 201 ponies isn't much—especially in the world of rapid EVs—the Aptera ...

Three-wheeled, solar-powered, electric Aptera completes validation testing in Mojave Desert, and could be the most efficient ...

Aptera chief Steve Fambro, in his company's latest newsletter, tells us they are building "lots of cars". Hooray! And then crushing them. Oh noes! We know this has been done to electric cars by ...

White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC), a UK-based firm dreaming up the future of motorcycles, is teaming up with Italian design ...

The never-ending attempted flight of the Aptera three-wheel design continues. After years of struggles and a bankruptcy in 2011, the Aptera assets were revived last year by a Chinese company ...

Carlsbad, California-based Aptera builds aerodynamic three-wheeled, solar-powered vehicles that elicit quizzical looks and stares. Now well into its second act after shutting down in 2011 ...

The name and concept would be resurrected at least twice more (once under Chinese ownership) before the original co-founders Chris Anthony and Steve Fambro took the reins and relaunched “Aptera ...

And Aptera dropped in-wheel motors for its production ... world’s first passenger car with in-wheel motors—powering the rear wheels in that case, supplied by Protean Electric.

Aptera said its lightweight, aerodynamic vehicle, which is integrated with solar cells, is designed for daily driving without needing to charge. It said the vehicle will provide up to 40 miles of ...

Californian start-up Aptera has completed its latest round of validation tests in the Mojave Desert, results from which suggest the three-wheeled, solar-powered, electric trike “will be the most ...