{"id":877,"date":"2009-12-07T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2009-12-07T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:39:23","slug":"zenn-to-stop-lsv-production-zap-phasing-out-xebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/zenn-to-stop-lsv-production-zap-phasing-out-xebra\/","title":{"rendered":"ZENN To Stop LSV Production; ZAP Phasing Out Xebra?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZENN announced that it will be stopping production of their LSV in April 2010.  As had been reported earlier the company is shifting it&#8217;s focus to the development of electric drivetrains based on EEStor technology.  The company reports selling about 500 of their LSVs in three years.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ZENN To Cease LSV Production\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN0716276420091207?type=marketsNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:  Reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another story about phasing out a vehicle, a careful examination of ZAP&#8217;s most recent quarterly findings, seem to indicate that they will be phasing out their three-wheeled Xebra model.  From their 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2009:  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The decrease of $1.5 million <\/em>(in revenue) <em>is primarily due to the phase out of our three wheeled Xebra vehicle with reduced selling prices.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition the company appears to be putting less emphasis on development of the Alias model.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"display:inline;font-size:10pt;\"><span style=\"display:inline;font-weight:bold;\">Research and development expenses <\/span> decreased by $57,000 from $138,000 in 2008 to $81,000 for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. The decrease was due to less work on the development of the Alias prototype vehicle<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"ZAP Phasing Out Xebra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/zap-pulls-the-plug-on-xebra-ev-but-not-on-stock-shenanigans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:  thetruthaboutcars.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZENN announced that it will be stopping production of their LSV in April 2010. As had been reported earlier the company is shifting it&#8217;s focus to the development of electric drivetrains based on EEStor technology. The company reports selling about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/zenn-to-stop-lsv-production-zap-phasing-out-xebra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12,14,18,23,24,28,29],"tags":[65,406,770,772,1311,1443,2187,2188],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-investment-financing","category-management","category-market-trends","category-nev","category-sales-figures","category-scooters-three-wheelers","category-zap","category-zenn","tag-alias","tag-eestor","tag-low-speed-vehicles","tag-lsv","tag-three-wheeled-vehicle","tag-xebra","tag-zap","tag-zenn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}