The journey to sustainable personal transportation starts with our Efficient Vehicle Design Formula, continues to our Sustainable Content Initiative and ends…well, it doesn’t end until we make a vehicle with zero environmental impact.

Sustainable Content Initiative

Sustainable solutions begin with creating a corporate priority around sustainable outcomes. There are natural, recyclable and other sustainable solutions that can be applied to a product, but only if the proper questions are presented. Aptera’s Sustainable Content Initiative focuses on our collective future; it questions the manufacturing process of every vehicle we create to evaluate its potential effect on the world.

You're sitting on a hill of beans

Soybeans to be exact. While we wouldn't advise you try to eat them, it might be an interesting conversation starter to tell friends your seat foam started life as soybeans.

Excuse me, but are you using that bottle?

Ever wonder what happens to your plastic soda bottles after you toss them into a recycling bin? Well, Aptera uses nearly 500 recycled plastic bottles in the interior of every one of our vehicles. Everything from carpet to some of the most fashionable simi-leather surfaces you have ever seen all come from plastic bottles.

0-40 in 24 hours

There are few things that add elegance to a vehicle interior like natural grain. At Aptera, our ‘-grain’ of choice is bamboo, which is rich with natural tones and among the fastest growing plants in the world (sprouting up to 40 inches every 24 hours).