Zap Electric Car ..Sweet.
Very interested in the future of this car. Price tag $30k.
General Info
Front wheel drive
•Wheel motors X 2
•Pure EV
•Motors: 2 x PML 15.75 inches (400 mm)
– Peak Power – 321.85 Horsepower (240 kW) total
– Peak Torque – 557.52 lb/ft (756 Nm)
– Max Revs – 2100 rpm
– Water cooled
•Performance
0 – 60 mph ( 96.56 Km/h): 5.7 seconds
Vmax: 156 mph (251.06 Km/h)
EV range: 100+ miles (160.9 kilometer)
• Vehicle kerb mass: 1612.6 lbs (733 kg)
Safety
ZAP-3 Homologated as a motorcycle
•Recommended safety requirements to provide enhanced safety features
compared with a conventional motorcycle
–Seatbelt provision
–Vehicle structure features
•Roll hoop
–Consideration of other enhanced safety features
•CAE will guide the development of structural safety solutions
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I own a ZAP Xebra electric car and love it. If anyone can do it , ZAP can. See http://www.zapworld.com
Sure, same old scam. Lure the yokels into the showroom with
speed to make them forget that this car may go fast, but can’t go far, and costs a lot, both now and in five years when its $20,000 battery pack of obsolete 1st generation li ion batteries go south (which may scotch their lies about how cheap the car is to operate). Why would any fool spend this kind of money on a car from a fly-by-night scam company that has never produced anything faster than a golf cart. Vaporware, most likely. Notice the lack of details on the dirty little secrets (like the coal generated grid electricity that powers this little “zero emisions ehicle.” Only airhead California politicians have the gall to claim
fossil fuel generated electricity is “zero emissions.” With logic like that, global warming is going to be here for sure. A 40 mile plug-in can do everything this car can, a lot cheaper and by providing the consumer with a bona fide automobile that actually can meet their needs. Thsi stuff is rubbish, liked mostly by the braindead younger generation of conspiracy morons.
Wow Kent, quite the comments. You serve some good points aside from your strong right leaning opinions. Which is ok in the right;) context.
Kent Beuchert is always a laugh a minute. He claims electric cars are really really bad (except for the GM Volt, he wants to buy one of those) because, for example, electricity is generated by coal. So, you’d think he’d be a fan of renewables. Not so. He like to slam solar and wind wherever he can as he winds his way through the internets.
Google his name sometime and check it out. Oh, and speaking of Alias. you could try “thebike45″ as well. That’s him too.
[...] "if a tree falls in the forest" kind of deals. I just happened to trip over him again beating up on ZAP. It’s a bit of an easy target but our hero still gets quite worked up about it. Great [...]
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How could you say that about ZAP when they have delivered over 100,000 electric vehicles (bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, mopeds, ATVs, LSVs, Xebras and many others)? They have customers in 75 countries, been in business since 1994, are a fully reporting public company with thousands of shareholders. ZAP management includes a 30-year auto dealer veteran, a 35+ year EV advocate, entrepreneur, and Albert Lam, who stepped down as CEO of Lotus Engineering to take part in the joint venture between ZAP and China Youngman.
The diversity of fuel sources used in electrical generation is one of the main reason electrics are cleaner. A study by EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) showed that millions of plug-in cars could be charged on the grid using off-peak electricity without any additional pollution.
Environmental safety of Lithium-Ion batteries? Lithium is the safest to the environment and has a much great cycle life than other technologies. That battery pack won’t be $20,000 either.
Sure looks Like the Zap Gang got slagged very hard in Wired Mag this month…