New Rabbit Year full of pleasent surprises.

While ZAP and Jonway define mutual advantages on the announced JV early 2010, further steps have been ongoing to convert it into an acquisition. The opportunities for the management team to work smarter just to assure a successful acquisition are wide.

Both companies proving to be able to build a solid ground to tackle the electric fleets market, while adding complementary product lines with innovative technical skills for new customers, leveraging existing infrastructure.

A blog published on "http://www.ontoplist.com", titled "Serious EV competitor is on the rise", presents a very interesting flash-forward on how this current stage of the acquisition is a pivotal point for any and every EV industry supporter.

I guess the New Rabbit Year will bring very interesting results.

California: EV Designer for the World.

Growth perception of the EV industry: ZAP

This article on the Wall Street Jornal always puffs my expectation. It enfises on how low-speed electric vehicles frenzy is catching on (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121746229279198963.html?mod=googlenews_wsj), and how orders at ZAP, the California maker of small electric cars, have exploded to about 50 a day.

The cars aren't for long-distance travel. The Xebra on the picture from 2008 could average about 25 miles on one charge, which is technically a motorcycle and goes up to 40 mph. But by now there is an extended list of vehicles from this same company that double and triples the range with most of their new products such as ZAPTruckZAPVAN, both with a predicted range of 40miles per charge and much more room and utility.  and

The other innovative update making the headlines is the sports vehicle defined as Alias, which comes in a new 3-wheeled style already impressing the elites on advanced automotive vehicle elite circles thanks to the amazing performance at the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, where it scored 121.8MPGe, details are all around the X Prize on this roadster capabilities.

The victorious partnership with Jonway Automobile is already forecast for a solid groundbreaking platform with the Powertrain conversions of the first and second generations of the A380, added to their portfolio as an 100% electricSUV, which opens a interesting new window to cover consumers preferences.

Pike Research seems to predict a demand for Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, forecasting that by 2015, a total of 1.7 million PHEVs will be on the road worldwide. The United States leading the pack, followed closely by China.

That is why ZAP's signed agreement with Shanghai Government for the Green City Project will bring a solid platform to provide not only the EV charging infrastructure, battery swap-out stations and maintenance support centers but also the culture and usage of electric vehicles for its public transportation in Yanpu, home to 1.24 million of people.

From The Blog: ZAP JONWAY

I picked out a well-known Chinese saying that comes 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?" makes 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.

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.

From: http://zapjonway.blogspot.com/ 

"What is The Electric Car?" Premiere Gift

What is the Electric car? (Trailer)

Just about time that someone got a fresh closeup on the next tech vehicles. Check the cast and tell me if any further hopes come to mind?

Credited cast:
	Alexandra Paul	...	Behind the Scenes - Herself
	Barack Obama	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Ed Begley Jr.	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Fabio	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Jimmy Carter	...	(archive footage)
	Chabeli Iglesias	...	Herself-Host

 and More...................

The exciting news is that the Documentary is not just premiering on the 14th of Dec. at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, but there some interesting freebie's that makes me feel again like Advanced Technology do not have to necessarily be expensive....if you arrive at the place driving an electric car the admission is free with one guest admission 50% off, and they will be giving away an electric car for FREE, (not sure why but my spider sense tells me it will be a Phoenix SUT,...but hey maybe I'm wrong on this one).

Don't want to make it only an American issue since the world Auto Industry is actually bringing serious assets to the table, in this case referring to Asia and Europe:...

Asia- Welcoming the new technologies and adapting them to fleets and daily productive activities.
Europe- R&D levels that can create considerable modifications to the industry but still no homogenized policies and laws for vehicle homologations.


Could go on and on but hope understanding more from others angles.--

What a wonderful morning for our ZAAP stock symbol.

Monday 22st of November, and I'm still a beijinger enjoying a beautiful sunshine from my office window, nostalgic of the outs and abouts of this freezing weekend, and back to my regular 9am to 6pm daily schedule. There are projects to be completed and programs to be organized, but the great thing about this little brain of mine is just that, even at sleeping hours, it suddenly brings a whole map of the what should or shouldn't be the main focus of activities (can't love it more!!!), but for sure it didn't see the ZAAP stock value climb to the .84 level.

After the first fase completion of the downpayment for the Jonway Automobile plant acquisition on $10 millions, some real concatenated events are putting my ZAAP stocks at the right value level.

This equity ownership transfer was approved by the Chinese government on October 3, this year. The Sanmen, Zhejiang factory plant will ramp into production of the A380 SUV/Electric Taxi, in the first half of 2011 together with ZAP's Alias EV by third quarter of 2011.

The exhibition of the vehicles at the EVS25 at Shenzhen-China, resulted in a solid ground for the right types of markets, with the new motor agreement between ZAP Jonway & Remy Electric Motors propelling a new era to the company's EV portfolio.

But most of all I think this scale growth of the ZAAP cap, is very well deserved, the global revelation of the strategic move to purchase Jonway's Zhejiang automobile plant, which reported sales of over 4,000 gasoline vehicles through the end of September 2010, and projects total sales of over 6,500 vehicles by December of this year, the wholesale sales prices of the vehicles averaged US$10,000 for which the predicted year-end revenues will increase in more than 40 % compared to last year.

Jonway Automobile reported its debt-free status, the positive cash flow, and the readiness for the subsequent goal as part of a new company "ZAP Jonway", which is to lead the emerging EV fleet market in China. Adding to that the announcement of an effective leadership coordination when Jonway's Automobile CEO was selcted by the board as the Co-CEO for the new company.


ZAP's EV technologies, products and expertise, have always been a threat for the main EV industry competitors, with the add of the capability of Jonway Automobile Plant to deliver over 50,000 vehicles per year, I am sure that the launch of its EV sales in the Asian territory targeting volume production delivery by the first half of 2011 is a done deal.

Chering for the best, now back to work.

WEVS 25 in Shenzhen (hours before the opening....)

After knowing that the last time China hosted the EVS was only 11 years ago (EVS16 - Beijing), our was all cheers and excitement for the experience, sharpening our knowledge about the trip to Shenzhen, event details and how we would be presenting our brand ZAP Jonway at a such international platform. 

 

 

Not sure how did it started but comparison on who was the lightest traveller was one of the longest and funniest subjects that kept all of us laughing for more than 20 minutes before departure.

 EVS25 here GOES the ZAP-JONWAY team BEIJING!!!

ZAP-Jonway, acquisition approved...!!!

July 2010, ZAP confirmed an agreement with Jonway Group to acquire a majority stake in Zhejiang Jonway Automobile^[36][37]. The Chinese Department of Commerce in Zhejiang Province confirmed the approval of the aquisition in September 2010^[38].

This marks another new link from SINO-U.S.  strategic alliances in the EV industry that is expected to catapult both companies to a new development stage, on the other hand the target market on which ZAP Jonway is enclosed will confirm China becoming the world’s largest market for plug-in electric vehicles thanks to a $14.7 billion government investment on all-electric vehicles and infrastructure, against over $2.5 billion from the Obama government in incentives for battery makers, consumer purchases, and for charging infrastructure.

At this pace China will beat the US market out when it comes to electric vehicles.