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[Kerbe]

Aptera Motors Resolves Legal Matter with Zaptera USA, Inc. | Aptera — Solar Electric Vehicles

 

[insightman]

Aptera Motors Resolves Legal Matter with Zaptera USA, Inc. | Aptera — Solar Electric Vehicles

I googled Zaptera and found a 2013 Autoblog article that described the original split between Zaptera and Aptera:

After years of struggles and a bankruptcy in 2011, the Aptera assets were revived last year by a Chinese company, Zap Jonway. Zaptera USA, which now owns the Aptera Motors assets, has announced that Aptera will be split into two companies.

One, Zaptera, will stay at it is, and “will retain the same Owners, Board Directors and Officers,” according to a press release emailed to us. Zaptera will focus on China and will mass-produce an all-electric Aptera 2e at a manufacturing facility owned by the Jonway Group.

The other company, Aptera USA, is splitting off to become independent. It will be run by CEO Richard Deringer, who told Gizmag in no uncertain terms that Zap Jonway is not in the picture. “We have nothing to do with Zap Jonway. We wish them well in trying to survive, but we don’t want any association with them,” he said.

Perhaps Mr. Deringer didn't hire the best lawyers. Thirteen years later, the sticky split appears to finally be a done deal.

 

[Kerbe]

I googled Zaptera and found a 2013 Autoblog article that described the original split between Zaptera and Aptera:

After years of struggles and a bankruptcy in 2011, the Aptera assets were revived last year by a Chinese company, Zap Jonway. Zaptera USA, which now owns the Aptera Motors assets, has announced that Aptera will be split into two companies.

One, Zaptera, will stay at it is, and “will retain the same Owners, Board Directors and Officers,” according to a press release emailed to us. Zaptera will focus on China and will mass-produce an all-electric Aptera 2e at a manufacturing facility owned by the Jonway Group.

The other company, Aptera USA, is splitting off to become independent. It will be run by CEO Richard Deringer, who told Gizmag in no uncertain terms that Zap Jonway is not in the picture. “We have nothing to do with Zap Jonway. We wish them well in trying to survive, but we don’t want any association with them,” he said.

Perhaps Mr. Deringer didn't hire the best lawyers. Thirteen years later, the sticky split appears to finally be a done deal.

Zaptera suddenly reappeared and started this now-terminated lawsuit when Anthony and Fambro reacquired their original Aptera intellectual property rights in 2019. Deringer's "Aptera USA" existed from 2012 until 2014.