Comments on: Google’s favorite car company

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:39:12 +0000

Chris, Aptera is a private company and so not available to most investors. But you can visit their website to see what the opportunity is. The website is http://www.aptera.com

By: chris Roney

chris Roney — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:38:25 +0000

How do I invest in the Aptera

By: Bill Gross's solar breakthrough | Marc Gunther

Bill Gross's solar breakthrough | Marc Gunther — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:58:51 +0000

[...] Bill Gross is nothing if not an enthusiast, which makes him a great salesman for whatever it is he happens to be selling. A lifelong entrepreneur, a longtime evangelist for solar energy and the CEO of eSolar, a Google-funded startup that designs and develops concentrating solar power (CSP) projects at utility scale, Gross is one of the most interesting business people I’ve known. I met Bill in 2002, when I wrote a critical story about him for FORTUNE – investors in Idealab, his Internet incubator, were suing him after the dot-com bubble burst – and although he and his wife, Marcia Goodstein, were more than mildly irritated with me then, we’ve reconciled and I now count myself as an admirer of Bill’s. He’s always got a million things going on, some of them slightly nutty, but all of them interesting. He’s in the robot business with a company called Evolution Robotics and he’s the founder of Aptera, a very cool electric car company (in which Google has invested) that I wrote about last spring. [...]

By: Catriona Harris

Catriona Harris — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:06:50 +0000

Very cool! And at an affordable price point! This is a huge step in the right direction for energy efficiency!

By: Tom Konrad

Tom Konrad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:04:00 +0000

Aptera’s been on the top of my new car wish list for a couple years now… at least among cars I might reasonably afford. If I needed a new car. If price were no object, the Tango EV would also make the list.

By: Aptera

Aptera — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:51:06 +0000

That graphic is amazing. It’s more aerodynamic then a bicycle, gotta love it.