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Domino's Delivers Pizza in a ZAP

World's Largest Pizza Delivery Company Begins Test of All-Electric Delivery Vehicle

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (May 8, 2007) - As part of the company's Worldwide Rally in Las Vegas this week, Domino's Pizza tested delivering its pizzas using ZAP (OTC BB: ZAAP) all-electric vehicles supplied to them by The Electric Vehicle Company. As the pizza delivery experts, the electric vehicle deliveries reinforce Domino's desire to bring cost-saving, environmentally friendly delivery options to its stores around the world.

Domino's tested electric vehicle pizza deliveries as part of its Worldwide Rally this week in Las Vegas. The $10,000 ZAP electric car travels speeds up to 40 mph. SOURCE: Domino'sOn Sunday, Domino's made actual pizza deliveries around the Las Vegas area in the ZAP electric vehicles.

"Today it is not uncommon to have your Domino's pizza delivered by bicycle, scooter or car around the world," said Jim Stansik, Domino's executive vice president of Franchise Development. "Looking toward tomorrow, Domino's is committed to also being a responsible consumer of our planet's natural resources by testing the feasibility of using electric vehicles in our stores."

The Electric Vehicle Company (EVC) of Chicago is making its all-electric vehicles available to consumer product companies for use as an environmentally friendly and cost-efficient option for conducting deliveries, mobile advertising and event marketing programs.

It's ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) line of XEBRA cars, pickup trucks, ATVs and scooters are perfect for driving around cities and at special events - even indoors - with worrying about harming the environment. Their unique styling will definitely catch consumers' eyes and can be easily wrapped with signage.

"Mobile event marketing and advertising with an electric ZAP vehicle not only allows a company to send a message about its product in a unique and cost-effective way, but also delivers a message that the company cares about the environment," says EVC president Larry Spatz.

The ZAP XEBRA is the only federally declared, street-legal, 100 percent electric car that plugs into any 110-volt outlet - the same outlet that is found in and outside every home, garage and office. The XEBRA is considered by ZAP as a 'city-car,' an all-electric design for city-speed driving up to 40 MPH. The XEBRA comes in a 4-door sedan or pickup truck with a convertible dump/flat bed. It plugs into a 110-volt outlet for a full charge in up to six hours and a 50 percent charge in up to 1.5 hours. Range varies up to 40 miles per charge depending on charging, speed, driving conditions and other factors. Fueling is estimated to cost 1-3 centers per mile while maintenance costs one-third that of gas due to the reduction of moving parts, less wear and replacements.

"Rising energy costs have become a major concern when budgeting for mobile advertising and event marketing programs," added Bob Kopach, EVC vice president of sales and marketing. "At $3 per gallon gas and higher, driving an all-electric ZAP XEBRA makes a lot of financial sense."

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Buckminister Fuller ~ [R]evolutionary Extraordinaire

Charrette Austin is the latest manifestation of Jon Lebkowsky's attempt, with Derek Woodgate, to create a framework for discussion about Austin's cultural and social fragmentation, which in our opinion why Austin, a good and attractive place to live, is never quite a great city.

The group met at Café Caffeine yesterday for a discussion led by David Armistead about Buckminister Fuller, whose work aligns well with the direction of Charrette Austin based on our earlier conversations.

Here's an excerpt from the Buckybio at Wikipedia:

He dedicated himself to advancing the success and fulfillment of humanity and lived by a set of self-disciplines; he was deeply concerned about sustainability and about human survival under the existing socio-economic system, yet was profoundly optimistic about humanity's prospects.

Defining wealth in terms of knowledge, as the"technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accommodateall growth needs of life", his analysis of the condition of "SpaceshipEarth" led him to conclude that at a certain point in the 1970s humanity had crossed an unprecedented watershed.

Fuller was convinced that the accumulation of relevant knowledge, combined with the quantities of key recyclable resources that had already been extracted from the earth, had reached a critical level, such that competition for necessities was no longer necessary. Cooperation had became the optimum survival strategy. "Selfishness", he declared, "is unnecessary and...unrationalizable...War is obsolete..."

By considering historical comparisons like the fact that even relatively poor people today are able to travel at speeds and with adegree of comfort which were unobtainable at any price in earlier times, and that illnesses that were fatal even to kings in the pastcan now be cured with affordable drugs, he concluded that everyone alive today can potentially live like a "billionaire." Hence hedescribed the human race as "four billion billionaires."

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