High fuel costs? ZAP them away

Guest blogger Lance Jungmeyer here ...

In certain applications, this new electric truck from ZAP may prove beneficial to produce companies.

Not due on the market until this fall, it is reasonably priced at around $15,000. Run time and performance are not listed on the site. Its performance likely will be an improvement over ZAP's Xebra cars, which can go only 40 mph and last 25 miles on a charge.

I could see these trucks being used inside and outside packing facilities, as well as in fields. In urban areas, if the truck were adapted with a refrigerated cargo area, it would be ideal for deliveries to restaurants and small grocers.

In heavy delivery use, one of these vehicles could probably pay for itself within a couple years.