US Postal Service Awards ZAP of Santa Rosa, California an Engineering Contract for Prototype Electric Mail Truck

US Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-Sixth District Santa Rosa) Scheduled to Tour

ZAP Electric Vehicle Facility February 16 in Santa Rosa, California

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Feb. 12 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 vehicle 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.

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  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 (www.zapworld.com) 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.  See http://www.zapworld.com/ for more
           info.

  /PRNewswire -- Feb. 12/

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