After Years Of Delays, Aptera Is Finally Preparing To Build Customer Cars

Aptera says it has ordered bodies, frames and suspension components for its first 40 production vehicles.

Parts should begin arriving in October, but funding, final components, and regulatory work are still unresolved.

Even if deliveries begin, 40 vehicles will barely dent Aptera’s roughly 50,000-preorder backlog.

Aptera is finally gearing up to build its first 40 customer cars after years of delays and uncertainty. The company says it has ordered the bodies, frames, and suspension components for this first batch of vehicles, which will be the first not branded as test mules or prototypes.

It’s unclear how many it will actually build, but Aptera says some of these first vehicles will end up in customers’ hands, though the chances of delivery this year are very slim. Aptera expects to receive all the parts it’s ordered starting in October, and it says it already has enough solar cells in stock to equip up to 100 vehicles.