Details of Aptera, Lightyear 0, Tesla heat pump, luxury electric car rental: Car News Today
Lucid offers one of many luxury EV leases slated for federal money mining. Aptera details its first three-wheeled solar electric vehicle due to its 1,000-mile range. Tesla claims their heat pump is better. And Lightyear bails on its solar car starting line and ignores the future. This and more, at Green Car Reports.
The Solar Aptera EV Launch Edition detailed Friday will offer 400-mile range on battery power and potentially additional range of up to 40 miles per day from the sun—though it doesn’t yet offer Tesla Supercharge.
Federal electric vehicle tax credit rules introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) last year now allow a credit of up to $7,500 to be applied to electric vehicle rental companies regardless of price caps. . That has started to lead to some government-subsidized luxury EV leases controversially that would also apply to imported luxury electric vehicles.
Lightyear announced this morning that it is stop production Lightyear 0 solar EV, due to financial problems. Instead, it’s aiming for the mass-produced Lightyear 2, it said.
And EV range in cold weather can be a problem, but heat pump is part of the remedy. Tesla last week detailed what distinguishes its device from the rest, and goes as far as to claim that its design works well in very cold weather, where others don’t.
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