About Aptera Motors Corp.
Aptera Motors Corp. is a company developing an energy efficient electric two-seat three-wheeler solar electric vehicle. The company is based in Carlsbad, California. It was founded in 2019 and became publicly traded in 2025. An earlier company, Aptera Motors Inc., was founded in 2006 but liquidated in 2011 after failing to get enough funding to start production of similar vehicles. The Zhejiang Jonway Group bought the intellectual property of Aptera Motors Inc. in 2012 and operated under the names Zaptera USA and Aptera USA, but ceased operations by 2014 without producing any vehicles.