Zap electro-car: The environmentalist’s fashion statement
Zap, synonymous with the first “zapper” electric car called Xebra (an offspring of decades of research and evolution) it made, is still fresh in the minds of all of us who found a solution to high cost, polluting, noisy cars.
The incorrigible Zap (as in Zero Air Pollution) is now all set to design its second electro-baby, this time much better than its first ( well, it shows promise, but trust me, you can never be too sure).
Apart from the fact that some features of the previously announced ZAP-X electric compact crossover concept will exist in the new vehicle, this one’s expected to run 100 miles per charge (usually almost 12 kilowatt hours. Nasty, I’d say).
This one’s expected to retail at $30,000. Honestly, why would you want to shell out so much to be in a budget-bashing ‘so-called’ head turner. I mean c’mon, with the pace at which life’s running these days, can you imagine having to charge your car, when you can’t quite find time to charge your cell phone? `N come to think of it. Okay, its great to be an environmentalist. But what on earth would you do when you get a sky-rocketing bill every month after buying a car that cost you a fortune? And moreover, battery replacements cost about $2000. Trust me, if the inexorable gas prices gave you sleepless nights, this one’s going to make you a true blue insomniac. Money, my dear, can be far better spent. But well, that’s me.