The sun is our favorite charging station. 🔌☀️ Aptera harnesses solar power every day, with plug-in charging when you need it faster.
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The sun is our favorite charging station. 🔌☀️ Aptera harnesses solar power every day, with plug-in charging when you need it faster.
Aptera Motors Corp. Files for Proposed Direct Listing on Nasdaq → aptera.us/proposed-dir...
It’s time to introduce the world to a vehicle that charges itself with the power of the sun. youtu.be/WF-4Lwzh2a0
Even the Telo Truck can be equipped with Aptera solar 😍 youtu.be/onOT8-06Py8
Enjoy my latest @aptera.us video. Discusses: (1) Bankruptcy. Not in the cards now. (2) How IPO may unfold. (3) Aptera design maturing for low cost volume production. Charge on! youtu.be/pKbSkCuGfWY
This is it. Aptera’s crowdfunding campaign closes tonight at 11:59 pm PT. Even though priority delivery slots have now been filled, there are still a few hours left to receive a vehicle discount that matches your investment up to $10,000. → invest.aptera.us
‼️ It's coming! ‼️
Aptera’s crowdfunding campaign closes in 5 days. This is your final chance to participate and secure a priority delivery slot through this offering. invest.aptera.us
#Aptera Perseverance. Watch until the end!
In just 8 days, Aptera will close its crowdfunding campaign (at midnight PT on July 26). With fewer than 250 priority delivery slots remaining, now’s the time to secure your spot. → invest.aptera.us
"Aptera [...] will not get distracted by the company killer and launch product killer that shuts down so many startups: trying to appeal to everyone."
As we begin real-world testing with Artemis, keep an eye out for a silver spaceship on wheels. If you catch us driving on sunshine, say hi and tag us on social media. ☀️
This! 👇
Nothing says independence like driving on sunshine. Happy 4th of July from all of us at Aptera! 🇺🇸
In just 1 day, we unveil our next validation vehicle to the world and show that determination and continued progress are bringing the dream of solar mobility to life. Our continued progress is only possible because of a community of regular people who believe in our vision.
Brompton is celebrating 50 years since creating the first of its iconic folding bikes. Congratulations to an incredible London success story 🎉 I’m one of 80,000 proud Brompton owners in London—over 1m bikes have been sold across the globe. Here’s to the next 50 years.
#TheVisioneers with Zay Harding takes teens on a journey through science, tech & eco-heroes working to protect the planet. Aptera is honored to be featured and show the world what solar mobility is all about. ☀️ Tune in this Saturday on CBS WKND, or stream here → www.cbs.com/shows/video/...
Human powered flight with the 36 years old Airglow! 💪👀
🚨 Major Aptera Milestone 🚨 On June 27, 2025, at 3:00 PM Pacific Time, Aptera plans to unveil its first fully built validation vehicle. → aptera.us/validation-v...
We designed solar panels for a vehicle. Now other industries want them, too. ☀️ More panels have been shipped to a real Aptera Solar customer.
I tried to not look at all at that silly parade but pictures of it were eventually shoved in front of my eyes, suchh as the one in the quoted post below. Did anybody else notice the striking similartiy to a Russian emblem of what was prominently displayed at where Trump aka Krasnov was dozing?
It's much worse! AI can be dangerous to the non-informed and the unsure, especially when they find themselves in a personal crisis.
About Elon Musk's and Tesla's profound and vile dishonesty ... and utter stupidity - by sending an email to the wrong Simon... 😂 (starts at 13:15) youtu.be/hlHZ1a6Vroc?...
A look into our build area from the top of the stairs—three lifts, three solar EVs, and one big mission. All of this progress is possible because of you, the Aptera community. 💚☀️
All oligarchs face the same dilemma - When they treat The People unfairly or unjustly The People cause their downfall. Happening now.
Aptera's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Zaptera USA, Inc. was heard by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of CA and has resulted in the dismissal of almost all claims brought by Zaptera, most of which have been dismissed without leave to refile. → aptera.us/update-on-za...
Efficiency doesn’t stop for weather. 🌧️
Two-thirds of priority delivery slots have been claimed. 🔥 Invest $5k or more, and secure your priority delivery slot today, plus earn a matching vehicle discount coupon up to $10,000. → aptera.us/our-path-for...
We completed our first test of the air conditioning system in Artemis and felt ice-cold air coming out of the vents, just in time for summer and the road trips ahead! 🥶❄️ The thermal system was designed and built in-house by Aptera engineers.
With only 10 circulating vehicles statistics are really not supporting a high probability of deadly accidents. But of course it also can't be ruled out.
... and zero electricity cost if you don't drive more than the average car owner does.
I don't think so. IIRC it was on Electrek where I read that the rollout will be underwhelming 10-20 vehicles, all remotely monitored, that is basically remote controlled. The supervising driver will not sit in the car but in front of a screen somewhere in the nearby gigafactory.
Three wheels, two seats, one regular parking space.
Reflective, white-painted roofs in #NYC cut temperatures inside during summer; residents use up to 15% less energy for A/C, meaning less strain on the grid + lower CO2 emissions. A city govt program has installed over 12 million sf of "cool roofs" since 2007. More than half the city is still to go.
Sales of battery-electric vehicles in Europe rose 28 percent in April over the same month a year ago, even as total sales fell incrementally. Sales of #Tesla #EV models fell by almost half, its 4th straight month of sales declines. Tesla's market share has fallen by half, to just 0.7% from 1.3%.
I almost never spend time on counterfactuals; there’s quite enough to cover in the real #EV world. But the Slate debut a few weeks ago sparked a thought: This is exactly what #Tesla should have built, instead of the Cybertruck it did. Delighted to have this as my very first piece in @theverge.com.
The shape and size of the NACS plug fits the Aptera like a glove!
People don't hate the sleek NACS plug, they hate Elon (for some very good reasons). BTW, how many people nowadays hate the Ford brand because Henry Ford was a very vocal antisemite?
It's crazy to think we were the first vehicle company to strongly support the adoption of the Tesla connector, and now here we are with every major name using it. Smart engineering always perseveres. Remember this petition from 2022? www.change.org/p/congress-t...
Congratulations Aptera to this amazing milestone! 🎉
We have begun delivery of Aptera Solar panel sets to Polydrops for their P21 trailers, marking the start of real-world use by customers. With tons of solar power onboard, these trailers are built for true off-grid adventures. We’re excited to ramp up production to meet growing demand.
It's a wide spread myth which despite having been proven wrong many times doesn't stop to pop up: "the moment when history ends" (so we could lean back and enjoy endlessly an achievment), like it was the end of WW2 or the end of the cold war. As you point out the myth also exists on a smaller scale.
Great conversation with Professor Anthony Reale! youtu.be/g7Y2Laf4Vlk
So you have been after some quick money. Wrong place, good on you to get out of here!
Sunlight is the only subsidy we need.
This is rightout false, and you know it.
I love to watch the steps how a sunny 🌞 vision is becoming reality!
With the Aptera, a vehicle that permanently carries it's own solar energy harvester getting closer to production, the visions of our energy future are about to achieve a further milestone! 🌞💚
In April, we made steady progress on Artemis, including infotainment and the full thermal system. Our solar team delivered its first panels to a customer, and we’re planning a summer road trip to connect with Aptera fans across the U.S. → youtu.be/DYQBvMThk64
Today, we're announcing a strategic partnership with Inmotive Inc. to explore opportunities for increased efficiency. We're working together to integrate Inmotive’s Ingear™ two-speed transmission into Aptera’s future vehicles. → aptera.us/inmotive-ing...
Such a fun interview with Anthony Reale! youtu.be/s826LZa2HOk
Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025
Ukrainian innovation to make a mine clearing tractor from scraps! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n98a...
"Solar panels in the roof of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 are extending the range by 5-6km a day in sunny regions, while the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid’s solar roof promises an extra 8km. But such small scale applications have failed to address the charging and grid challenges in any meaningful way."
Soo much for everyone's retirement savings... Trumps great economic policies are sinking the economy, his foreign policy is to betray and threaten allies, his health policy is to bringing back measles, his social policy is to attack DEI / LGBT. What an absolute joke of a president.
Final episode of Joe Cleaver doing the first ever Solar Cannonball Run, using his EV filled up to the brim with solar panels. The 30 other videos of his YT channel cover his entire unique adventure.
Enjoy my latest My Aptera Journey video. Joe from Aptera Accessories and I discuss the unannounced presentation Aptera Motors made to Korean investors while at CES. Something interesting going on here…. youtu.be/2_7_PQbdprk
#Electrek on #Aptera 's latest real-world testing and vehicle validation.
Ok, ok. Las Vegas PD ordering Teslas will not make up for the company's self-inflicted losses from millions of people now not anymore buying Teslas because they became Swasticars. Also, Fuck Elmo.
@aptera.bsky.social 👇👀
Car safety rating scores in Europe now will be negatively impacted by the absence of physical buttons.
US government officials ordering Teslas will not make up for the company's self-inflicted losses from millions of people now not anymore buying Teslas because they became Swasticars.
Jason C Hill, Chief of Design at #Aptera Motors, will be speaking on March 6th, 2025, at the #Pininfarina headquarters in Turin, Italy. Pininfarina’s Wind Tunnel played a key role in Aptera’s solar electric vehicle, one of the most aerodynamically efficient ever.
Trump is a conficted felon that has threatened our sovereignty. He should not be allowed to travel to Canada for the G7 or for bany other reason. All Canadians which agree should sign this petition. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
youtu.be/cVTzyhJy5wk?...
The user interface of the #Aptera by @aptera.bsky.social A quick overview without a single word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAVQ...
Letter from the ECB President to Mr Jonás Fernández, MEP, on energy and inflation europa.eu/!MkVWvV
Enjoy my latest My Aptera Journey video. Thrill over the crowds and excitement. Relish the images of carbon fiber and aluminum. The vehicle’s lighting is simply eye candy! Watch conversation with co-CEO Chris Anthony. Aptera at 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas. youtu.be/EQ4YrdPkvPY
An amazing vehicle. Aiming to be in production by the end of the year. Check it out! youtu.be/KN9Z6kn5gtY Please repost to spread the word!
Track at sunset, still sipping sunlight—23W trickling in, peaking over 350W on this partly cloudy winter day. Made from carbon fiber and exotic alloys, and sculpted with low drag aerodynamics and fit with numerous computers, it has more in common with the X-37 space plane than an EV.
Even Trump is screwing Tesla owners www.theverge.com/news/608316/...
This Right Here👇😁 #Canadasky 🍁
Tesla's January sales YoY in the markets of some major European countries. Elon Musk is entering the Find Out phase.
But you have to admit that Mary Barra's lip movements in her appearance on that TV right out from the sixties or so were perfectly genuine! 😆
Great interview by Drive The Lightning with a surprisingly open Mary Barra! (Spoiler: quite hilarious with a hefty pinch of facts she normally wouldn't talk about. 😂) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEao...
That was the best interview with Steve Fambro I have listened to so far! And the other ones were also always providing great insights to whatever he was talking about. 👍
People going on about Elmo's Nazi Salute not being a Nazi salute and showing pictures of random arms in the same position are just fundamentally not getting it. Why? 1) The video. He is not just raising his arm. 2) The context. He is clearly fascist. 3) The history. He comes from a Nazi family.
No one can be left behind in the clean energy transition. Especially not an entire continent. Africa holds 60% of the world’s best solar resources and wants to increase renewables fivefold by 2030. But the continent gets less than 2% of global clean energy investments. This must change.
The EU’s electricity transition continued at pace in 2024, as solar overtook coal for the first time and gas declined for the fifth year in a row
Elon is clearly acting in a coordinated way against Canada in a coordinated effort with Trump's idiotic trade war. We will never be a 51st state. Inflation on both slides of the border will be massive for a large number of industries. #canadaFirst #oligarchy #tradewar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfa4...
"Elon Musk is participating in the 'dumbest experiment in history' and is 'not good for America or the world' – and both of those quotes come from Elon Musk, himself."
Just in case someone is confused about whether Elon Musk is a Nazi or not, here's a 20 seconds quick explanation I found which should do away with the last doubts one might have had.
Fossil fuels are the Kremlin's infinite money cheat. By simply extracting black gold from the ground they eliminated any need to sustain their population for taxation. This also provided infinite resources for corruption and influence abroad No fossil fuels no terrorist russia.
That is a quite unique, very nice and also informative report you have delivered here. 👍 I love it! Well, only that math teacher who is taking about some parts of the Aptera having zero air drag... I hope he doesn't teach physics! 😅
If anybody is interested, I created a YouTube video about my time with Aptera at CES 2025, youtu.be/gtereAMLSNw?...
Raj Giandeep honed in on another promising technology. This technology can help remove the demand of batteries entirely. A promising leap into eliminating the nuclear & coal lobbies from our congress.
At the #CES 2025 in Las Vegas Steve Fambro, co-Founder and co-CEO of #Aptera gives some first-hand new information about the vehicle, its validation process and the timeline thereof. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Xv...
Daniel Kafer interviewing #Aptera 's Steve Fambro about China's ambitions and the "western" automotive industry's self-inflicted fate at the horizon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQML...
#Pininfarina is proud of being part of #Aptera 's journey to a cleaner world with more sustainable transportation. 💪🎉 (Off topic: screenshot from a platform that has been much more important in the past.)
Yesterday #Aptera co-founder and co-CEO Steve Fambro posted a video clip filmed during the preparations for the #CES 2025 in Las Vegas. 👂 He wrote: "Day after Christmas in prep for CES: Using the new ‘Lobby Track’ because it’s indoors and quiet, to discover the origin of a tiny clicking sound."
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Rumors spread that 60+ fire trucks from Oregon were turned away near Sacramento, because they didn't meet California's smog requirements. The rumors weren't true. Officials from both CA + Oregon have shared statements denying such claims + showing trucks aiding firefighters in Los Angeles. FFS.
@stevefambro.bsky.social talks about the current market conditions of China's imploding economy & the danger to domestic-made EV's as they're forced to leverage their capture of market share to repair their GDP.
Epic #Aptera Solar Electric Vehicle pictures and music in a video by Raj Giandeep. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpum... I wrote a litte blog post about Aptera at CES 2025, see there: thomaswaldmann.notion.site/2025-01-10-A...
5/5 ... the then ca. $33k LE, which now has gone up to an estimated $40k. P.S. My car turned 25 this January, I bought it when it was 6 months "old". The Aptera will be my first new car, and something like it has been my dream car since I was a glider models building teenager! 😅
4/5 ... I don't imagine that they first will serve all Launch Edition vehicles before going ahead with other variants, but maybe I'm wrong. 🤷♂️ Also, not all by now 52k pre-orderers may have or take delivery of the LE as some had switched from the then as $26k announced 250 miles variant to ... ⬇️
3/5 ... Two years ago Chris Anthony was talking of plnning to deliver about 5k to 8k LE vehicles before getting the 250 miles range Aptera to the road, but this number my have increase since then. ... ⬇️
2/5 ... taller battery cells which to be accomdated will require additional tooling for a slightly different "belly pan" of the vehicle. So this will require some more time. Some additions like a pet kit, tent and also different colors will come relatively soon. ... ⬇️
David Cady 