Earlier in June, we wrote about Aptera when the company received 40 million USD to begin the production of its solar-powered car that offers up to 1.600 kilometers of range.

Aptera's car is a lightweight, three-wheel design and it was designed around getting the best possible efficiency.

If you live in a sunny area of the world, the Aptera EV might allow you to drive for thousands of kilometers before you plug in.

This is due to the fact that the car is able to juice its battery pack with 64 kilometers-worth of range per day in optimal conditions using its solar panels.

The lowest-end Aptera model, which provides as much as 400 kilometers of range, is said to cost 25.900 USD, which could make it very attractive for those who want to jump on the EV wagon, but are afraid they might forget to charge their car.

According to Big Think, in order to manufacture its vehicles, Aptera will rely on automated robots provided by American company RedViking.

This means that the vehicles will be carried from one spot to another, instead of rolling down on an assembly line.

Aptera CEO Chris Anthony said that "these carts are really adaptable over time. It’s not the traditional automotive plant that has overhead gantries that you have to install that cost millions and millions of dollars and aren’t very flexible."

This process allows for a few advantages, two of them being the fact that the assembly spots can be modified in the future, if the need may be, and robots can also move a car to a special spot for further inspection if there's an issue with a specific model.

Aptera already received some 25.000 reservations for its solar-powered EV, and by the end of the year, the company is expected to deliver its first pre-production units, before entering mass-production.

If the cars are well-received, the Californian startup expects to produce as many as 600.000 of them per year.

Photo source: Aptera