Aptera Is Back: Most Efficient EV To Date With 1,000 Mile Range

If it manages to get to production this time, hopefully.

EV fans had a huge blow when Aptera Motors filed for bankruptcy in 2011. After all, it would deliver a car that was able to run 100 miles on a single charge with a really small battery pack. It would have been an incredible feat that could be credited to low weight and a very low drag body. Eight years later, we can tell you Aptera will be back in business. With the same partners that wanted to have it on its feet back then. And ten times more range.

You read it right: the new Aptera plans to reach 1,000 miles of range with a single full charge. Again, with the help of its water drop body – which does not fight the air around – a very small frontal area and low weight, as IEEE Spectrum revealed with exclusivity.

The new battery pack also has to be bigger. In fact, Aptera plans to offer battery packs that will range from 40 kWh to 100 kWh. The 60-kWh car will weight solely 800 kg, light even for ICE car standards.

It will probably help that Chris Anthony and Michael Johnson founded Flux Power, an industrial battery technology company. Steve Fambro is the other partner involved. He and Anthony are the CEOs for the new Aptera. Perhaps Flux Power has something up its sleeve to get the new Aptera ready in very little time.