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Aptera Motors Resolves Legal Matter with Zaptera USA, Inc. | Aptera — Solar Electric Vehicles

Aptera Motors Resolves Legal Matter with Zaptera USA, Inc. Carlsbad, CA — April 14, 2026 — Aptera Motors Corp. (NASDAQ: SEV), a solar mobili

Summary: The current Aptera Motors bought the IP from the estate of the guy who ended up with it after the liquidation of the original Aptera. Zaptera contested that, saying they owned it the whole time. This assertion has been thrown out of court.

Detail: Zaptera USA, Inc. didn't exist until after they filed the lawsuit, then had the ownership on a patent changed. This is perhaps suggestive that they did not own it the whole time.

Another minor point: the original company liquidated. It did not go bankrupt. That is not the same thing. I've seen that in a number of articles. To the point of the lawsuit, liquidation is a controlled process, but also one that did not take place in court, so the records of what got assigned to creditors or investors are not official documents in the court system.

I personally would love to see a rip-off Chinese Aptera. The Chinese EVs are great stuff, but generally unimaginative. (Like the new cities. Why recreate a mid city 10 times when you could do something that might be better? Or 10 different things, see what works?) Copy the aggressive lightweight-ing, max out the build efficiency, make it look more like a UFO. The electric revolution wasn't the introduction of electricity. People put the lights where their gas lamps were, or the motor where their water wheel or steam engine was. One could argue that Aptera, as odd as it is, is still in the old world. Do the in-wheel motors, lose the wheel pods with torque and rear wheel steering (with drive-by-wire to make that not feel weird), exotic batteries, flexible solar printed on vinyl for the sides, and use Chinese manufacturing to make all that cheap and efficient.

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A somewhat gentle political message.

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Marques Brownlee drives an Aptera

Good review. I thought it was positive over all. Once again, the vehicle seems oddly unfinished.

All the previous ones have working rear view mirrors. Why is that not working now? And less sepia side mirrors. Are things breaking already, or just not getting done in time?

Related, disappointed about the change to the foot space, but again, who knows what it will end up with, even at this point, apparently. I'd love to remove the center console entirely, but that might just be me. (Adding storage to the back of the passenger seat was discussed at one point.)

They should really remove the dash cells entirely. They can't possibly be generating that much power compared to the entire top surface. These are the improved version! This is supposed to be left in the sun, but that doesn't mean you want the interior space blasted. I'd like to put up shades.

Mr. Brownlee mentions Chicago winters, but around here (north of where this was filmed), I have had my car ice up only once in decades, and having a door handle didn't matter at all. I had to crawl in through the hatchback.

I know there are approval issues with Apple and CarPlay, but Android? Seems like another thing that won't be ready on time.

The carpet did look very nice. That was my issue with the CES version. The UI looked nice.

Chris Anthony (IIRC) once mentioned 1/3rd of people hate it on sight, 1/3rd love it. This seemed mostly indifferent to the looks, but could be won over with the self-charging for the average American driver (19.9 miles a day, according to the 2021 National Household Travel Survey). This is also fine. It is certainly odd.

That it drives like a Civic is a plus for me, a Civic owner. I have no complaints about it. I'm not looking for a supercar.

This is not a complaint about the product, but when making a demo you know people will be filming, maybe juice the refresh rate on the lights so it looks like they are on all the time?

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SEV trades on Nasdaq

The first day does not look good, because it started at $20. That was definitely a mistake. If it doesn't stay that high, it just spends forever looking like a loss, when that initial number was just something somebody pulled out of the air. Conversely, starting low and going high is instant FOMO. Combined with a number of early investors dumping shares, the high initial price encouraged cashing out, and the rapidly falling price encouraged panic dumping, which cratered the price. Which is when I bought some, so yay, me. A lot of people in the comments on AOC's live stream and discord are not cut out to be investors.

The closing bell was nice. Sandy Munro was there.

If it can make it there...

Some Internet Genius complained when Aptera said it was a panoramic window. That is a lot of 'up'.

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Aptera financing

They are getting listed on NASDAQ tomorrow, and they have a $75m investment. They have not announced it yet, but that is the money they need for production. So it's looking good. One might say sunny.

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Solar wraps

Another good Everybody in the Pool find, with low cost, light weight solar from Kardinia Energy. It is only 1/4 as efficient as normal solar, but can go a lot more places. Normal solar was already cheaper than fencing. Had a 'wouldn't it be great if you could put solar on cars' moment, but this might be nice for the sides of an Aptera, not to power the traction battery, but let the 12v run more stuff, like sentry mode cameras or keeping the seats warm. If it gets scratched and dies, well, it doesn't have a lifespan longer than a wrap, anyway.

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Aptera public listing announcement

Kind of nervous in that it puts production in the hands of the market, an entity not exactly known for making rational choices or rewarding missed deadlines. Plus, the market seems to be busy dropping trillions on the Plagiarism Machine, so it might not have the spare cash to invest in something that isn't useless and self-destructive.

Now that their quiet period is over, hopefully they can get back on the road, and specifically around where the investment types live. People who see it (the 1/3 of people who love it on sight, and not the 1/3 who immediately hate it) will have a connection that looking at the facts would not: "auto start-up, lots of imported parts? ev? Solar ?! In Trump's economy?"

They got "SEV" from the defunct Sono. It's better than SUNA. I think it's good in the 'there can be only one' solar electric vehicle sense, but people are already confused when they looked it up and got old data.

It's progress.

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Aptera's first customer deliveries

Not for the autocycle unfortunately, but this thing: https://www.polydrops.com/p21

In case you need to tow it with an EV, you might consider another potential Aptera solar customer, Telo.

I should point out that I'm not an AI shill for Aptera. It's just I assume nobody would want to read my anime reviews, terrible SF, or reviews of nudist camp grounds. I also follow @carsthatnevermadeitetc. All the really nice, aerodynamic, novel, beautiful "cars that never made it", because The Man thought they wouldn't sell enough to be worth making. Aptera took a formula and said 'that's it, we're done', and have stuck with it despite The Man's having killed the company once before. I'd really like to support them in bringing a solar EV to the roads. The fact that it looks like a UFO is a bonus for me.