zap-x electric crossover

Keri · 01-25-2008, 11:11 PM

**Zap-X Electric Crossover** What does anyone know about this vehicle? I found their website and am truly interested. I saw where you could reserve one for $25,000, but I could not even find when they expect to be available. Thanks for any info. Keri

BY the way, here is the website address.
ZAP-X Electric Crossover SUV Reservation | ZAP Electric Cars

daniel · 01-26-2008, 02:36 PM

The reason why you could not find an availability date is that it will never be available. The Zap-X, the Obvio, and a bunch of others are fantasies of the folks at Zap, intended to give a few pennies boost to their stock price. Zap has such a bad reputation that folks in the EV community were amazed when, after years of vaporware, they actually brought the Xebra to market. The third-generation Tesla (a family sedan, which will follow the second gen, a sporty sedan, which will follow the roadster) will be on the roads when the Zap-X has been quietly forgotten and replaced by the equally-nonexistant Zap-Y, the Zap-Z, and the Zap-Q.

Don't believe anything you read on the Zap web site. Not even the specs for the Xebra (a really fun but poorly-built car which needs significant upgrades to be acceptable to most people).

Keri · 01-26-2008, 03:09 PM

Darn It! Well, thanks for your help. It sounded too good to be true, and I guess it is. I can't help but wonder why there can't be a vehicle like this for a price like $60,000. I appreciate you for your help.

daniel · 01-28-2008, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Keri

Darn It! Well, thanks for your help. It sounded too good to be true, and I guess it is. I can't help but wonder why there can't be a vehicle like this for a price like $60,000. I appreciate you for your help.

I think there could be. But it requires a tremendous amount of capital. Probably hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and bring it to market. And the companies with that kind of capital and the car distribution networks to distribute it have such enormous investments in oil, and are so dependent on revenue from maintenance, that they don't see a profit in electric cars, which get their energy from the grid and require very little maintenance.

If GM owned coal mining operations and coal-fired electric generating plants, Volts would be as numerous today as Priuses. But GM does not own coal. It owns petroleum. So it crushed the EV-1 once it had won its lawsuit against the CARB, and it only pretends that it intends to build the Volt.

01-25-2008, 11:11 PM	#1
Keri Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: TEXAS Posts: 65 My Car: 2008 Prius Model: Package: #6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Friends: 0	zap-x electric crossover Zap-X Electric Crossover What does anyone know about this vehicle? I found their website and am truly interested. I saw where you could reserve one for $25,000, but I could not even find when they expect to be available. Thanks for any info. Keri BY the way, here is the website address. ZAP-X Electric Crossover SUV Reservation \| ZAP Electric Cars Last edited by Keri; 01-25-2008 at 11:27 PM. Reason: Edited because I am an idiot and forgot to post website!

01-26-2008, 02:36 PM	#2
daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 12,599 My Car: 2004 Prius Model: Package: #6 Thanks: 115 Thanked 420 Times in 282 Posts Friends: 0	Re: zap-x electric crossover The reason why you could not find an availability date is that it will never be available. The Zap-X, the Obvio, and a bunch of others are fantasies of the folks at Zap, intended to give a few pennies boost to their stock price. Zap has such a bad reputation that folks in the EV community were amazed when, after years of vaporware, they actually brought the Xebra to market. The third-generation Tesla (a family sedan, which will follow the second gen, a sporty sedan, which will follow the roadster) will be on the roads when the Zap-X has been quietly forgotten and replaced by the equally-nonexistant Zap-Y, the Zap-Z, and the Zap-Q. Don't believe anything you read on the Zap web site. Not even the specs for the Xebra (a really fun but poorly-built car which needs significant upgrades to be acceptable to most people). __________________ Daniel Primary car: Zap Xebra SD, 100% electric. 1.9 cents per mile. Range: 40 miles total, or 32 miles to 80% discharge. Top speed 35 mph. Faster downhill. Uses electrons generated from water power. Gas guzzler for when I have to travel farther than 30 miles: 2004 Prius. "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -- Emma Goldman "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think long and hard before starting a war." -- Otto von Bismarck

01-26-2008, 03:09 PM	#3
Keri Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: TEXAS Posts: 65 My Car: 2008 Prius Model: Package: #6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Friends: 0	Re: zap-x electric crossover Darn It! Well, thanks for your help. It sounded too good to be true, and I guess it is. I can't help but wonder why there can't be a vehicle like this for a price like $60,000. I appreciate you for your help.