SANTA ROSA, Calif.,
April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- ZAP (ZAAP: OTC), an Electric Vehicle (EV) automotive
company incorporated in California Bay Area received
pre-qualification notice from the United States Postal Service
("USPS") for its Next Generation Delivery Vehicle ("NGDV"). On
April 10, 2015, USPS notified the
Company that ZAP was selected as a pre-qualifier for the
development of new energy efficient postal delivery vehicles under
the USPS's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle ("NGDV") program.
This pre-qualification selection was a result of a Request for
Information and Prequalification/Sources Sought by USPS for its
NGDV issued on January 20, 2015. The
purpose of this Request was to inform prospective suppliers on the
USPS's preliminary draft specifications and plans for the
acquisition of the NGDV fleet replacements. The USPS operates a
fleet of over 200,000 vehicles in all areas of the United States and its territories. The
contract, when awarded to a single supplier, will call for delivery
of a minimum of 3,000 vehicles by January, 2018 to start with.
ZAP had been working with USPS since 2009 on the initial
proposal for clean energy vehicles. ZAP was at that time
selected as one of a few vendors to undergo trial to be selected to
supply USPS with electric power train conversion of their
traditional USPS trucks. After several years of trial, USPS
decided last year that this program to adopt clean energy vehicles
should be done with completely new trucks or vans more suitably
designed to be powered by clean energy. This latest Request
for Information pre-qualified ZAP to participate in the formal
response for proposal and to begin a trial with the new product in
first quarter 2016.
ZAP Jonway is working with a couple of large truck manufacturers
and is in the process of finalizing its partnerships to support the
repurposing of the truck's body to meet the specifications for this
USPS opportunity. ZAP Jonway hopes to utilize this repurposed
clean energy truck which will have models in both electric as well
as Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to expand into the US clean energy
delivery fleet market. After getting the products qualified
and type approved in the US for the USPS, ZAP hopes to target
potentially other similar delivery companies interested in the same
kind of products for their fleets. This potentially could open
up a new market for ZAP to deliver its EV vans into the US delivery
and logistics industries.
About ZAP and Jonway Auto
ZAP and Jonway Auto designs and manufactures quality, affordable
new energy and electric vehicles (EVs). Jonway Automobile has
ISO 9000 manufacturing facilities, certified for EV manufacturing,
and engineering, sales and customer services facilities in
China. Jonway has production capacity of up to 50,000 vehicles
per year, over 1 million square feet of factory space, and over 65
acres of land and established sales distribution network in
China. ZAP, an early pioneer of
EVs, brings to both companies a broad range of EV product
technologies. ZAP is headquartered in Santa Rosa, California and Jonway Auto is
located in Zhejiang Province of
the People's Republic of China.
Additional information about ZAP Jonway is available at
http://www.zapworld.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking
statements defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate,"
"expect," "intend," "plan," and similar expressions that may tend
to suggest a future event or outcome are not guarantees of
performance, which cannot be predicted or anticipated. These
forward-looking statements are based largely on expectations and
are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which
are beyond the control of the Company. Actual results could
differ materially from these forward-looking
statements.
Contact: Michael
Ringstad
Mringstad@zapworld.com
707-525-8658x104
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