Santa's ZAP Workshop re-energizes holiday shopping in downtown Santa Rosa

Santa's ZAP Workshop re-energizes holiday shopping in downtown Santa Rosa

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (December 3, 2005) - ZAP opens its doors to the community at its headquarters in historic Santa Rosa, California with ZAP! vehicles, fun, prizes and huge discounts.

ZAP wants to bring back the fun of old-fashioned holiday window-shopping and is opening up its headquarters to the community while partnering with local businesses and non-profits. In partnership with The Santa Rosa Plaza, ZAP has named its holiday outlet as this season's official "Santa's ZAP! Workshop," now fully equipped to provide for the implementation of Zero Air Pollution, or ZAP, technologies. ZAP is providing a positive retail environment to give socially responsible consumers the tools they need to save money on gas, cut air pollution, and improve the environment, including cars, personal transport technologies and other futuristic vehicles and gifts.

Visitors to the Santa's ZAP! Workshop can also enter to win valuable prizes and discounts on ZAP vehicles, including a Grand Prize Drawing for a 2005 ZAP ATZ (All-Terrain ZAP). Prizes are subject to conditions and restrictions; see store for detail. Shoppers can also visit Santa's Village in The Santa Rosa Plaza for valuable coupons and prizes redeemable at the Santa's ZAP Workshop.

Meanwhile, to alleviate skyrocketing gas prices, ZAP is releasing its strategic reserve of energy efficient vehicles. ZAP also needs to make room for new state-of-the-art vehicles that will further assist in the crisis as it extends to 2005-to be announced. Save from 25% to 75% on up to $1 million in ZAP vehicles, plus see the latest in advanced transportation and energy technologies. Every ZAP must go!

Test drive electric three-wheeled, hub-motorized chariots, mini-motorcycles-even innovative e-bikes for only $199, as well as other electrically-driven modes of transportation that create almost no pollution and are fun and inexpensive for the entire family. Come and see the latest ZAP vehicles, including the new 60-MPG Smart Car Americanized by ZAP, the new ZAPPY3 three-wheeled scooter and ZAP's convenient new Portable Energy pack, which can replace all the batteries you need to power your holiday gadgets.

ZAP is a Sonoma-County based company that has been called a worldwide leader in advanced transportation by TIME Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. After more than a decade, ZAP is poised to catapult into the auto industry with its landmark direct-import contract for the internationally famous 60-MPG SMART ForTwo Coupe, already a legend in Europe, now imported to America by automotive technology leader ZAP. See it right here in downtown Santa Rosa at ZAP Headquarters, 501 Fourth Street and B Street across from the Santa Rosa Plaza. U.S. approval is pending, so come on down to the Santa's ZAP Workshop for the opportunity to be the first to own the 60-MPG Smart ForTwo coupe, a landmark achievement in autmotive design and engineering.

Santa's ZAP! Workshop is located at 501 Fourth Street on the corner of Fourth and B Street across from The Santa Rosa Plaza in the historic shopping district of downtown Santa Rosa. For store hours and other information, call Santa's ZAP! Workshop at (707) 525-8658 or visit http://www.zapworld.com.