El Pollo Loco CEO Plugs Xebra Electric Car in USA Today
“We deliver” it reads along the side of El Pollo Loco's electric delivery vehicles. CEO Steve Carley delivers the goods for El Pollo Loco, a 386-store chicken chain that employs 4,000 people, not including those working at 247 franchise restaurants.
On February 24, 2009 Carley was featured on the cover of USA Today's Money section in an article how “many of the job-creating company founders and CEOs of the future will rise from the ashes of today's unemployed.” Carley chose to be photographed in a colorfully wrapped and branded electric delivery vehicle purchased from ZAP.
The article talks about the challenges various business leaders have faced in pursuit of their career goals and how the current economic downturn is an opportunity to redefine a career and emerge even better. Steve Carley had been laid off three times before joining El Pollo Loco.
"I wouldn't have this phenomenal opportunity without those layoffs, and would have missed out on one of the most gratifying leadership opportunities of my career," Carley told USA Today.
ZAP sees the economic downturn as an “opportunity,” said ZAP CEO Steve Schneider in a recent interview with John McDermott of CEO Radio Network. ZAP’s electric delivery vehicles start at $11,700 and are considered by some to be the most economical vehicles on the road, not to mention less pollution.
El Pollo Loco purchased the ZAP Xebras last year as an idea for deliveries in dense urban areas. Today ZAP has a number of vehicles designed for corporate, government and small business fleet applications. Several hundred private users are also driving ZAP electric cars and trucks in most parts of the United States today and rave about the benefits of electric transportation.
With all the recent talk about electric cars, ZAP is perhaps the only company with a lineup of various affordable, practical electric vehicles available for delivery today. Since 1994 ZAP has delivered over 100,000 electric vehicles to consumers in more than 75 countries. While most of these are electric scooters and bicycles, in the past ten years ZAP has worked to expand its automotive business and has delivered more than a thousand different electric and advanced technology vehicles through its dealer network of authorized sales and service centers, perhaps the only one in existence today.
Related Links:
- El Pollo Loco
- USA Today
- ZAP CEO Steve Schneider Radio Interview
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- ZAP Fleets
- ZAP Owners