Alternatives

Chicago's Sopraffina Marketcaffe to Unveil Solar-Electric Catering Vehicle in Chicago

CHICAGO, April 22, 2008 -- Chicago's Sopraffina Marketcaffe today is celebrating Earth Day with the unveiling of a new, first-of-its-kind, 100 percent solar-electric powered catering vehicle. La Grange Park electric car dealer Jessup's Automotive helped bring the vehicle to Chicago as part of a dealer network being formed by ZAP (OTC Bulletin Board: ZAAP).

Thank you to our friends with the Sonoma Valley Film Festival and Green Living Sonoma for partnering to use a zero-emission vehicle for logistics at the 2008 festival. Thanks to Hetty, Ginny, Bill and everyone else for making this possible.
~ Alex Campbell, ZAP

SANTA ROSA, CA (April 18, 2008) -- Remember that electric car prices are coming down as you ponder the meaning of Earth Day on April 22, while gas prices keep going up. You may just want to trade in your old gas-guzzler for an electric car today at participating ZAP (OTCBB: ZAAP) dealers.

Missouri is looking at setting a biodiesel mandate of 5% which could match the highest biodiesel mandate in the country.

New Mexico will be B5 by 2012 and four other states have B2 mandates.

The Missouri bill passed the first preliminary approval hurdle this week and now needs to be voted on in the state House and Senate before moving forward.

In South Dakota, the Governor has signed into law a piece of legislation that drops the tax on diesel fuel by two cents a gallon if it contains at least five percent biodiesel blended in.

The law begins once South Dakota can make at least 20 million gallons of the biofuel a year.

The following are some of the alternative fuel that are now available. The U.S. Department of Energy classifies them as Alternative fuel.

• Biodiesel or mono alkyl esters, is a domestically produced, renewable fuel that can be manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant greases. Biodiesel is safe, biodegradable, and reduces serious air pollutants such as particulates, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and air toxics. Basically, there is no engine modification that is required to make it work, and biodiesel sustains the payload capacity and range of a diesel.