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Aptera Motors Inc.
Thursday December 8, 2011 [...]
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Just as one American electric car company, Fisker Automotive, begins delivering vehicles to customers, another is preparing for a reboot. [...]
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We informed you in May that Aptera was planning to look beyond California to find a production facility for our vehicles. This decision followed an exhaustive review of the financial and logistics implications of building vehicles in California versus other states. [...]
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Aptera Motors, the North County company with a three-wheeled electric car that looks like a wingless plane said Tuesday that it no longer plans to manufacture in San Diego County. [...]
On Friday, President Obama announced the National Clean Fleets Partnership, with AT&T, FedEx, PepsiCo, UPS and Verizon as charter members. This public-private partnership is intended to help large companies reduce diesel and gasoline use in their fleets by incorporating electric vehicles, alternative fuels, and fuel-saving measures into their daily operations. [...]
Embrace technology and start creating. [...]
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What’s been happening at Aptera? The hyper-aerodynamic vehicle company is still moving forward, just not as fast as the original plans called for (remember when the car was supposed to be available in 2009 2010?). In the company’s latest email newsletter, much space is dedicated to explaining where thing stand with the request for money from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan program (still waiting to hear back), the development and design of the 2-series vehicles (still testing) and why Aptera hasn’t sold any vehicles yet (still waiting, see ATVMLP). Here’s a choice quote:
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Aptera recently visited Washington D.C., New York, New Jersey, Detroit and Chicago. Watch some of the coverage Aptera received from Bloomberg, FOX News and NBC below.
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Three vehicles emerged as class winners at the Automotive X-Prize. One, the Li-Ion Motors Wave II, captured victory after a grueling 100-mile Combined Performance and Efficiency Test was completed. Five vehicles in the Alternative Side-by-Side Class competed in this tiebreaker event and, by less than two-tenths of a second, the Wave II emerged as the champ. Li-Ion Motors was presented with a $2.5 million award for winning its class, and the other four teams, those that competed in the tiebreaker but lost, received nothing. Or so we thought.
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As electric cars make their way to market, one funky little vehicle has captured plenty of attention for its unusual looks. That would be the Aptera 2e.
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10/11/2010
DAVID CLOUSTON
Gary Neuschafer is ready to drive an electric car if its makers promise him it can carry him safely, round-trip, to Salina from his Lindsborg home on a single charge.
“The performance of it is impressive to me,” Neuschafer said Monday morning after taking a spin in the two-seater Aptera 2e electric vehicle on the streets around the Bicentennial Center. “It’ll run (speed-wise) with traffic. But we live at Lindsborg and it’s 40 miles round-trip. Some of these electric vehicles will run 50, 60 miles and that’s it.”
The Aptera — a Greek word for “wingless flight” — delivers more than 100 miles on a charge at a speed of up to 90 miles an hour.
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Source: saljournal.com
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Come see the Aptera 2e and the Aptera Team at the Museum of Science and Industry Thursday, October 7th.
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Marques McCammon, chief marketing officer of start-up California auto firm Aptera, and Tom Reichenbach, chief engineer, talk about the company’s Aptera 2E electric vehicle and the outlook for the company.
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Come experience the Aptera 2e at Cantine Veteran’s Memorial Complex Saturday, October 2nd.
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“(The U.S.) will break the back of the energy crisis. We will build the foundation for our future (energy) capacity to meet America’s needs with America’s own resources.”
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Carlsbad-based Aptera Motors recently failed to win the Automotive X Prize, a competition, according to the website, “To inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change.”
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Yesterday I took an Aptera 2E out for a spin. I drove it for about 30 minutes in moderate traffic up and down Manhattan’s West Side Highway. Here’s what I thought:
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“If you finish second, then you’re the first loser.”
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Fox Car Report drives the new electric Aptera 2e. The car has three wheels, and gets the equivalent of 200 MPG.
Video: opposingviews.com
If you’re around Princeton, NJ, the Aptera 2e will be on display Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Cruise on down for a chance to drive the Aptera 2e and learn about aerodynamics, low weight and safety. We hope to see you there!
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Despite making the cut from 111 teams to the final seven, North County-based Aptera Motors finished out of the money in the 30-month Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, according to a Sept. 16 news release.
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The Automotive X PRIZE competition is at long last coming to an end and we think the Aptera team, and each of you – our fans, has a great deal to celebrate.
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