A little Californian, a little Emilian: it is the first true solar car

The first true solar car is already here, almost for sale. The manufacturer of solar electric vehicles Aptera Motors signed an agreement with the CPC group to produce their own special bodies in composite materials in Modena, Italy, in the heart of the Emilia-Romagna Motor Valley where supercars and legendary motorcycles have been produced with passion for decades.

CPC will supply materials and structures for Aptera's BINC, acronym for Body in Carbon.

In keeping with the San Diego builder's ethos of simplicity, safety, and sustainability, the BINC is made up of just six major elements.

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BINC can be recycled up to five times, resulting in a low carbon life cycle

It can be recycled up to five times, with a very low CO2 emission life cycle.

Most BINC is made from a sheet carbon fiber compound (CF-SMC), paired with a sheet glass compound (SMC).

Carbon Fiber-SMC is a lightweight material made up of a random arrangement of short length fibers, which allows you to mold parts with complex shapes.

Offers much higher stiffness and strength than standard SMC.

Because it can be die-molded, this process significantly shortens the production time of the BINC and will allow Aptera Motors to start delivering vehicles to customers faster.

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An autonomy of 1600 kilometers with a recharge and about seventy driven by the sun

La Aptera Motors builds the world's most technologically advanced solar electric vehicles (EVs) made possible by advances in battery efficiency, aerodynamics, materials science and manufacturing.

The Aptera Delta is the first in a series of environmentally friendly vehicles that will be offered for commercial and private use.

It has the longest range of any non-combustible production vehicle, with the ability to travel 1.000 miles (1.600 km) on a single charge and up to 40 miles (64 kilometers) a day on free energy from integrated solar panels .

With just six basic body elements, a unique shape allows the Aptera to glide through the air using far less energy than other electric and hybrid vehicles currently on the road.

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According to Franco Iorio, CEO of CPC, “The Aptera represents a change from the conventional thinking of the past. We want to be part of this future and that's why we join the Aptera movement. We will build the bodies of their only solar vehicle in the heart of the Motor Valley, allowing the Californian automaker to scale production immediately to meet the high demand for their first vehicle.”

Il CPC Group was founded in 1959 as a small artisan company that produced models made exclusively by the expert hand of the model maker.

Having made the transition from aluminum to composite materials, CPC has established itself over the last decade as one of the world's most respected and respected companies for specialized composite solutions in the automotive sector.

Clients include Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Maserati, BMW, Lotus and more.

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Steve Fambro, co-founder of Aptera, said: “When we met with CPC together with Sandy Munro, we realized the true synergy whereby the most efficient vehicle in the world could be made with the most efficient process. For several months, our engineers have been working closely with CPC to finalize our Delta project, and now those efforts are materializing with a major step towards volume production.”

With more than 37.000 reservations already made at www.aptera.us, Aptera aims to begin deliveries in 2023 and achieve a large-scale production rate of 40 vehicles per day at its final assembly plant in Carlsbad, California, which it will be preceded by a similar structure in Modena.

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One of the largest pressing plants in the world for composites at the service of the future

The CPC Group is the largest European manufacturer of composite materials, with over 850 employees and a production capacity of 500.000 finished parts per year.

Furthermore, the company will soon double its production capacity to reach one million finished parts per year.

CPC owns one of the largest pressing plants in the world, used exclusively for the transformation of composite materials into large components.

The company possesses the technological experience and know-how in the automotive industry, from component design to mold making for the production of aluminum casting parts and carbon fiber composite material parts.

It uses the latest state-of-the-art composite material manufacturing technologies.

The one between Aptera and CPC, along the axis between the State of California and the Emilia-Romagna Region, therefore already seems like a marriage in which the roses… will bloom. In Switzerland an unprecedented theory of automotive segments