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TTAC tests the ZAP Xebra, hates it

Mar 14th 2008 6:35PM - 7 Comments

Paul Niedermeyer over at TTAC got the chance to drive a ZAP Xebra pickup and his review pretty much reads as you would expect. The car is poorly assembled, slow, short range and dangerous. He goes so far as to refer to it as a motorized ...

Are Xebra EVs zero-emission or not?

Jan 29th 2007 7:53PM - 9 Comments

The newspaper Inside Bay Area regularly features alternative car technologies and culture (like this article on Elon Musk of Tesla or this one fuel taxes) and, with the paper situated in a place where the population is likely to embrace NEVs – ...

ZAP cars keep coming with Xebra, Obvio

Aug 24th 2006 8:09AM - 4 Comments

Small and nimble will win the next segment of the auto sales race. With most of the major auto manufacturers only slowly moving away from their once-insanely popular (but now seen as gas-guzzling burdens) large SUVs to smaller cars, independent ...

Four-door Zap Xebra approved for UK roads

Nov 21st 2007 5:05PM - 4 Comments

If crowding a bunch of school children into a Zap Xebra (remember this video?) sounds like fun to you, then perhaps a new four-door version of the all-electric vehicle will be the site of your next endeavor. Even if you just want to use the car ...

Xebra sells on eBay for $10,800. Winner outbids 8,000 others?

Oct 4th 2006 12:17PM - 5 Comments

Steve Palmer is the freshest owner of a Xebra electric vehicle after submitting the winning bid of $10,800 on a recent eBay auction. While the Xebra's actual retail price is under $10,000, the squat little EVs are only sold through authorized ...

UPS leases 42 all-electric Zap Xebras for deliveries in Petaluma, California

Nov 13th 2007 1:19PM - 8 Comments

In May, Zap announced that Domino's would use a three-wheeled, all-electric Xebra to deliver pizzas in Las Vegas. Today, Zero Air Pollution vehicles announced a much bigger delivery deal: UPS is leasing 42 Xebra cars and trucks to deliver packages ...

Will Buckshot kill the Xebra?

Aug 11th 2008 11:19AM - 6 Comments

For the past few years the little Xebra from ZAP! has pretty much had the American three-wheeled electric truck market cornered. However, those days of "dominance" may soon be numbered if the Buckshot from Green Vehicles proves to be as capable as ...

VIDEO: ZAP Xebra hacked!!!

Aug 15th 2008 8:02AM - 4 Comments

Kids today. Give them a new toy and before the sun goes down it's been taken apart, hacked, and maybe even improved. Jeff isn't exactly a kid and he picked up this toy some time last January but a Xebra isn't exactly an Playstation so it took a ...

Review: How about a test-drive in a new Xebra PK?

Aug 15th 2007 4:01PM - 12 Comments

I was just going in for some routine maintenance on my car, when I saw a line of scooters in front of the lobby of Jessup's Automotive in LaGrange Park, IL, the mechanic my family has been going to for seven years. Upon closer inspection, I noticed ...

Massachusetts revokes ZAP Xebra registrations

Aug 1st 2008 6:04PM - 7 Comments

Prospective ZAP Xebra owners in Mass. take note: your State has just revoked all of the current registrations for the electric three-wheelers. It seems that the State has just come to realize that the machines don't actually qualify as either ...

Meet the company that builds the Zap! Xebra

Oct 27th 2007 1:17PM - 6 Comments

By the way, it's not Zap! Zap! doesn't actually manufacture any of the vehicles they sell. They are basically just a marketing organization for Chinese built three-wheelers. The Xebra and an assortment of other models are built by Shandong Jindalu ...

Packt Like Sardines in a Zap Xebra

Aug 1st 2007 2:43PM - 0 Comments

Take a bunch of students from the Eagle Martial Arts After School Program, put them in a Wal-Mart parking lot with a Zap Xebra and let the fun commence. A new video from Zap shows just how many small bodies you can pile into one of these little ...

ZAP Xebra finally gets some upgrades

Nov 8th 2008 8:03PM - 13 Comments

The often-maligned three-wheeled Zap Xebra is getting some upgrades, after shipping a record number of vehicles last quarter, that could make it a much better vehicle overall. We don't think that anything has been changed that would potentially give ...

First test drive of the new '09 Zap Xebra

Dec 10th 2008 3:23PM - 6 Comments

As we reported early last month, Zap has finally updated its three-wheeled Xebra for 2009 with a new steel body and much more storage space through its new hatchback. While we're happy to hear that one of the few actual electric vehicles on the ...

Zap responds to Xebra brake recall notice

Jun 3rd 2009 11:53AM - 1 Comment

After reporting on the NHTSA recall of 2008 Zap Xebras we heard back from Zap spokesman Alex Campbell. The federal government doesn't actually do all the regulatory compliance testing for new vehicles. Manufacturers or distributors either do the ...

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