ZAP begins Green City Development Project with Shanghai's Yangpu District

Dec,20,2010

Shanghai

Since ZAP Jonway CEO Steve Schneider joined the Bay Area Council in September 2010, regional ties with Chinese auto industry have been reaching ground breaking levels.

BAY AREA COUNCIL

ZAP signed an MOU agreement 

The Bay Area Council (http://www.bayareacouncil.org), opened an office in June 2010 in the Yangpu District of Shanghai to help Bay Area businesses expand into the Chinese market, while working to attract Chinese businesses and investment to that region. It has also held major conferences in China      on venture capital and green technology while hosting and sending senior delegations to China. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger participated in some of the trade mission which weighted on ZAP Jonway's successfull deal with the government of Shanghai's Yangpu District to develop a Green City Zone in Yangpu's downtown, home to 1.24 million of people,using electric vehicles for its public transportation while installing also the EV charging infrastructure, battery swap-out stations and maintenance support centers.

ZAP Jonway CEO Steven Schneider

“New plug-in vehicle technologies from ZAP, together with Jonway’s cost effective manufacturing in China, will accelerate the implementation of our Green Project with Yangpu. This truly bridges the best aspects of both the US and China, leveraging the strengths of the technological innovation in the Bay Area and Yangpu,” said ZAP CEO Steve Schneider,

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

“We have just started the initial planning of this long term project. The hard work of implementation and operations is ahead of us. We believe that the project planning and resourcing will be a yearlong process. We are pleased to be part of Yangpu’s Green Project and share Party Secretary Chen Yin’s vision and commitment to delivering his objectives,” says ZAP Chairman Dr. Priscilla Lu.

To execute these plans and better access the Chinese market, ZAP Jonway will open its EV sales and operations office in the Yangpu District and plans to establish its research and development engineering center in the district to take advantage of the university communities, that within the 24 square mile district of Yangpu there are 14 universities surrounding the Knowledge Innovation Center (KIC), a technology community that includes Fudan University and Tongji University, making this area one of the leading research centers in China on Clean Tech.
About ZAP
Based in Santa Rosa, ZAP has been a pioneer in the electric vehicle industry since 1994, engaging in the design, development, commercialization and distribution of 100% pure electric vehicles and power systems, and delivering a wide range of vehicle designs to consumers and fleet customers in the United States and international markets for sixteen years.The company supplies electric trucks and vans to military, government and corporate fleets and offers personal transportation products including electric motorcycles, scooters, ATVs and some of the only electric city-speed vehicles in production today. ZAP is also developing a freeway capable electric vehicle called the ZAP Alias that was a finalist in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.

About Jonway
Jonway is the trade name of Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co., Ltd., an automobile manufacturer based in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China that currently produces several thousand units per year of two SUV models, the A380 3-door and the A380 5-door.Built in 2009, Jonway’s modern 3.6 million square foot factory on 141 acres is ISO9000 certified and has the capacity to produce up to 30,000 units per year.It employs over 800 workers and distributes its vehicles in China through 80 factory direct dealers and hundreds of factory authorized dealers.Jonway Auto is a subsidiary of Jonway Group, which has been a leader in the manufacturing of motorcycles, ATVs and related products for more than 20 years.


Link:
ZAP Jonway CEO Joins Bay Area Council to Strengthen Regional Ties with China (Sep,4,2010)http://cn.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS178719+03-Sep-2010+BW20100903?symbol=ZAAP.OB 


ZAP Begins Project Development on Green City Partnership with Shanghai’s Yangpu District (Dec,17,2010)http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ZAP-Begins-Project-bw-3498858309.html?x=0&.v=1&.pf=retirement&mod=pf-retirement

路是脚踏出来的，历史是人写出来的。人的每一步行动都在书写自己的历史。

Dec,10,2010
I picked out a chinese saying that come from Ji Hongchang, a military officer, as the title of this article It means: Man's every move is to write his history.

"What is the electric car?" make an effort to promote electric cars in marketplace, and this is as a step attempting to make a success in the development history of EVs.

Gary Dodd,Ginny, Kang 

We enter an historic time with real, mainstream electric cars poised to come to market.  Still, there seems to be a great deal of confusion and controversy around them, which is one reason why we like the new documentary premiering in Hollywood on December 14, “What is the Electric Car?” but not the only reason.

We really like “What is the Electric Car?” because our very own Ginny is one of the stars of the film.  Yes, THE Virginia (Ginny) Scales-Medeiros, mother of two, entrepreneur, inventor, auto maven and electric car proponent extraordinaire.

The story of how Ginny earned a role in the documentary “What is the Electric Car?” is somewhat ironic.  Ginny is perhaps the most outgoing, gregarious person we work with, and the perfect person to help represent ZAP for its Detroit Auto Show debut.  2010 was the very first year that Detroit’s North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) hosted a display dedicated to electric cars called “Electric Avenue.” ZAP was invited to display its Alias electric car in Detroit as part of the lead-up to the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.

Link to ZAP Global Blog:  http://zapglobal.wordpress.com 

http://zapglobal.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/why-we-like-%E2%80%9Cwhat-is-the-electric-car%E2%80%9D/

Read more related news: http://zapglobal.wordpress.com/category/technology/

ZAP Jonway CFO-Bill Hartman come to Beijing Office

ZAP JONWAY CFO-Bill Hartman come to Beijing representitive office this Tuesday. Mr. Bill talk to the employees here about their work and share opinion of company development.

BestOFOTC.com: Top Traders at OTC on 11/24/2010 -ZAAP

BestOfOTC.com Top Traders at OTC on 11/24/2010: (HHWW, LFBG, MITK, IMDS, AMOK, ZAAP)

ZAP (OTC:ZAAP) closed on $0.990 moving up by 14.45% with total traded volume 927,724.00, ZAP designs, produces and sells fully electric and other advanced technology vehicles.

The Gravitational Pull of China

November 29, 2010

A recent report from iSuppli, an El Segundo technology research firm, predicts China will dominate nearly 72 percent of new photovoltaic manufacturing capacity this year.

Chinese companies hold seven of the positions on iSuppli’sT op 10 list, representing 6,445 megawatts of manufacturing capacity.

The back end of yet another green tech vehicle headed for manufacture in China.

 

Zap making big move into China

Nov.29

Jonway purchase would bring access to enormous Zheijang production plant

SANTA ROSA – Zap’s electric vehicles will most likely go into high-volume production in China.

The company’s pending 51 percent stake in Jonway Automobiles in the Zheijang Province of China will bring major changes to the 50-employee Santa Rosa pioneer of Zero Air Pollution vehicles, which got its start in Sonoma County in the 1970s.

Zap Jonway, as the new company will be called when the deal is finalized, will manufacture and sell both gasoline and electric vehicles.