The United States Postal Service has awarded Bay Area electric car pioneer ZAP an engineering prototype contract for the design and development of an electric mail truck. US Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is scheduled to tour ZAP’s electric vehicles facility in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM PST to learn more about how this federal program is creating local jobs.
WHAT: Electric vehicle facility tour with US Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D – Sixth District California)
Bay Area EV pioneer ZAP has been awarded a competitive R&D contract for the conversion of a gasoline postal truck to run on electricity
WHEN: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM PST
WHERE: ZAP EV Facility, 806 Donahue between 8th and 9th St. in Santa Rosa
WHO: US Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D – Sixth District California)
ZAP CEO Steve Schneider & Employees
WHY: The US Postal Service is studying the reduction of fuel consumption through a feasibility study of electric mail trucks. Federal legislation would convert 20,000 mail trucks to run on electricity. This postal service contract is creating local jobs in Santa Rosa
VISUALS: US mail truck in process of conversion
Tour of ZAP’s assembly, research and development facility for electric vehicles
Demonstrations and test drives of several ZAP electric vehicles available to the media.
