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“Never Charge EV” -1000 km Range Aptera Solar Car

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What if there is a vehicle you don’t have spent a single penny for fueling… guess what there is Aptera Solar Car. The company aims to eliminate the stratification in the EV sector by building affordable solar-powered Electric cars. Aptera Solar Car. Its front-wheel-drive car can go from zero to 60 mph in 5.5

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Aptera finally built a production-intent working 3-wheel EV

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Aptera on Wednesday announced that it had completed a working production-intent version of its high-efficiency, three-wheel solar EV. Aptera has in the past discussed other versions with as much as 1,000 miles of range once power from the solar array is factored in, and 0-60 mph times as low as 3.5

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This cute little electric bike-car just may be back from the dead

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Nearly a thousand of the hand-built three-wheeled electric vehicles were delivered between 2013 and 2019, when an unfortunate bankruptcy seemed to mark a regrettable end to the world’s first production electric bike car. Remember the ELF? It was one of the first ever electric bike cars to actually reach production.

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2010 Aptera 2e First Drive and Video on Inside Line

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Featured Specs Battery-powered electric drivetrain Three wheels; 0.15 Cd 1,700 pounds 100-mile cruising range Driving the Prototype of the EV Three-Wheeler By John ODell, Senior Editor Email Date posted: 2009-03-16 21:00:00.0 It is also amazing how stable a three-wheeler can be. STORY TOOLS Digg this! What Is It?

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University Solar Team Switches Focus From Competition to Near-Production Ready Vehicle; Changing the Solar-Powered Paradigm

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The new Sunstang is a three-wheel, fully electric, single-passenger vehicle. This next-generation Sunstang is based on the team’s re-evaluation of the solar-powered vehicle paradigm. The team calculated that the cost of solar panels grows nearly exponentially with an increase in efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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Power of One Solar Car Transits Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk

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Marcelo da Luz and his Power of One (XOF1) solar car ( earlier post ) arrived in the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada after successfully traveling 187 km (116 miles) from the town of Inuvik over one of the longest seasonal ice roads in the world. The expedition took 9.5 hours from start to finish. Arriving in Tuktoyaktuk.

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Power Of One Solar Car Reaches Los Angeles After Breaking World Distance Record, Heading to Washington, DC

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Marcelo da Luz and his Power of One solar car ( earlier post ), recently arrived in Los Angeles after traveling more than 12,500 miles. In the process, he reached the Arctic Circle, and broke the world distance record for a solar car. The original plan was to drive the solar car from Buffalo, NY to Inuvik, NT and back to Buffalo, NY.