ZAP HAS sold 100,000 EVs, most of them are bicycles and scooters, but a few thousand now are of a larger variety. An EV is an EV if it moves someone and displaces an ICE. How is this misleading? It’s the truth.

I was there when ZAP delivered the first smart car in the US. I was there when ZAP collected $50 million in signed purchase orders in one week.

The Wired article is yellow journalism, simply, which was not an expose, but a rant by failed stakeholders who want to blame ZAP. Several have attempted to compete against ZAP, thinking they can do better. Please try, but don’t blame ZAP for the failings of EVs when 99% of the world still uses petroleum and the oil companies and their stakeholders will continue to resist this unless more people stop waiting for EVs and start adopting them in some form.

Don’t believe all the EV hype, go to the source and ask questions. Start driving and using EVs, build your own if you want. ZAP is producing EVs right now with vehicles in stock, something people said ZAP would never do either, but it’s TRUE.

In 1999, the nominated the ZAPPY scooter for an award.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/fetish.html

Today it looks like all their ads come from auto and oil. I wonder if they sold out?

You have seen “Who Killed the Electric Car?” Is Wired trying to kill the electric car?

All they’re their statements about ZAP are wild exaggerations. ZAP did sell Worldcars, the market was small. ZAP does have a hydrogen Worldcar at its Headquarters, but we see electrics as a simpler solution. ZAP did sell the Smart Car (over 300) and could have sold a lot more if Mercedes, smart and others hand’t interferred. ZAP doesn’t make the OBVIO, so how can we deliver it? Plus, it seems ethanol is not really taking off like OBVIO thought. The Xebra was designed for niche markets, but today it is probably the only affordable alternative for people looking for an electric car. The NY Times said it was the best selling electric vehicle at the nation’s top electric car dealer. The ZAP Alias and ZAP-X were engineered from conception by Lotus Engineering, not ZAP, and we don’t expect the first vehicles to be available until 2009 and never publicly stated that any vehicles would be available before then. As for the dealers in this article, I feel for them but this is a business and other dealers don’t seem to be having problems selling Xebras. One of the dealers slamming ZAP is starting his own 3-wheeled EV company, so naturally he’ll want to paint ZAP in a bad light. Everyone thinks building electric cars is easy. ZAP has stayed in business by building more than 100,000 electric vehicles, from bicycles, to scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, ATVs and more. While we have seen good companies come and go in this market, what other consumer EV manufacturer has been in busines for 13 years. Good luck.

As for the “shady stock dealings,” be careful and do your research. All the allegations in this article are designed to confuse the average investor. Management for public companies get most of their compensation in stock and the sale of this stock is highly restricted and regulated to protect the average investor. Talk to your broker.

I am the proud owner a Xebra and would recommend for everyone to start driving electric, no matter what company you buy from. This is the message that all true environmentalists need to make so we can vote as consumers for what we believe in. Hopefully car-makers will respond.

But don’t believe the ZAP haters, they are green with envy.

The terrible ZAPs executives need to start running before the WIRED freight trains hit them in the face.

Have you ever called the ZAP HQ? These folks are idiots who can’t commit to a solid delivery date if it’s printed right in front of them. I, for one, won;t “deposit” a single cent toward the ZAP-X until I can touch and drive one for myself.

Buy buy ZAP, get lost!
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