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[...] The media declared the electric car dead. They were wrong.
Overlooked were the noble, continuing efforts of a company now simply known as ZAP (Zero Air Pollution), headquartered in Santa Rosa, Calif. ZAP had been around in one form or another since its inception as ZAP Power Systems in Sebastopol, Calif., in September 1994.
The company, which started out making electric bicycles and battery-powered city scooters, has never made money. It went through a brief Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. But when it comes to electric cars, ZAP has a better idea -- one that could get some high-voltage retail juice flowing through the struggling electric-vehicle industry and generate sustainable profits.
ZAP is pushing the idea of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs), and that makes perfect sense considering that most electric cars and trucks still fall short of their fossil-fueled counterparts in load-influenced driving ranges, refueling times and dollar-for-value expectations. [...]
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