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Aptera Motors Drives First Five Validation Vehicles Off the Line
CARLSBAD, Calif., May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aptera Motors Corp. (Nasdaq: SEV), a solar mobility company pioneering ultra-efficient transportation, today announced that five validation vehicles have been driven off its newly established low-volume validation assembly line. Each vehicle has been built on Aptera's low-volume validation assembly line in Carlsbad, California, where trained technicians move through 14 stations using processes designed to scale. Running multiple vehicles through
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