Aptera says it has sufficient cash to push forward with manufacturing. Mercedes’ eSprinter previews passenger vans and extra. Tesla tops the gross sales charts in California by an extended shot. And is 90 minutes sufficient to highschool dealerships on EVs? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automotive Experiences. 

In a first drive of the 2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter electrical van, we noticed how companies and fleet managers are going to expire of excuses, as diesel’s residing on borrowed time. And this quiet, super-efficient van leads the way in which to passenger vans, RVs, and the electrical vanlife arriving in only a few extra years. 

The efficiency-focused California startup Aptera claims it’s crowdfunded sufficient cash to construct its three-wheel photo voltaic EV. However is it sufficient to flee Elio’s lengthy shadow, and a sample of pushed-back timelines?

As a gross sales roundup launched this previous week by sellers in California identified, EV gross sales from franchised dealerships have been means up 94% from 2022 to 2023. However the direct-sales champ Tesla nonetheless reigned in California, with the Mannequin three and Mannequin Y including as much as almost one in eight autos bought within the state, electrical or not. To combine it one other means, almost one in eight Teslas bought globally have been delivered in California.

And the Nationwide Car Sellers Affiliation (NADA) thinks it may well flip automobile sellers into EV consultants in 90 minutes. May such a program be all sellers have to get pull out of the sluggish lane and perception that the Biden administration is shifting too quick on EVs?

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