Nearly two decades in the making, the otherworldly three-wheel Aptera is headed to production this year as a $40,000, 400-mile EV that can capture up to 40 miles worth of free solar energy every day.

Aptera Motors officially introduced its new electric vehicle, the first to be recharged solely with solar energy. The best thing is that you can now set aside your futuristic car for only 100 ...

It'll go 400 miles on a charge, and with solar panels plastered all over it, you may never even have to plug it in, Aptera says. Pricing is listed on the Aptera website at $30,700.

Aptera has been cooking since then, as it has been since the George W. Bush years. It returned to CES in 2025 with a similar, but streamlined silhouette. It still had the same tri-wheel design ...

Solar EV startup Aptera Motors has finally given the public a look at its “PI-2” production-intent vehicle, which will now be used for real-world validation and testing en route to production ...

Aptera says its solar EV can travel 10,000+ miles on solar per year. After 20 years in the works, it wants to deliver by the end of this year.

Aptera didn’t include the exact drag coefficient for the new vehicle, but has claimed that past prototypes were able to achieve one of 0.13, as compared to 0.23 for Tesla’s Model 3.