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    Exhibit
10.2         Press Release
Regarding the Appointment of Gary Dodd as President

    


    


    Toyota
Manufacturing Veteran Named ZAP President

    Seasoned
Management Team Poised for Growth

    


    


    SANTA
ROSA, California (June 18, 2009) ZAP (OTC BB: ZAAP) CEO Steven Schneider named
Gary Dodd, a respected manufacturing executive formally with Toyota, as
president of global operations. This recent move is seen as another step in
Schneider’s plan to introduce US-built electric vehicles to the
masses.

    
      


      Mr. Dodd
joins the management team alongside Amos Kazzaz, who became ZAP COO. Mr. Kazzaz
had spent more than twenty-four years in executive positions with United
Airlines including president of United Airlines Shuttle where he had oversight
of more than two thousand employees. “Amos is responsible for maintaining
efficient operations, our CFO Bill Hartman is a seasoned CPA with SEC
experience, and I know how to position, market, and sell vehicles... lots of
them,” Schneider concluded.

       

    

    “ZAP will
creatively work with American automobile suppliers to build affordable and
appealing electric vehicles for American consumers and customers worldwide,” Mr.
Dodd said.  “We are going to dramatically expand ZAP’s leadership in
the electric vehicle marketplace.”

    
      


      Mr. Dodd
has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on behalf of Zap Motor
Manufacturing for a $200 million Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan
to build an electric vehicle assembly plant. “We are very optimistic that the
company’s loan application will receive funding from the DOE,” Mr. Dodd said.
“Another key part of our strategy is the sizeable competitive advantage we will
enjoy because of our close proximity to two proposed Kentucky-based facilities
that will be critical to the future of electric vehicles in the United
States.”

       

    

    Argonne
National Laboratory has announced that it will build a National Battery
Manufacturing R&D Center in Kentucky, in an innovative partnership with
Kentucky state government, the University of Kentucky and the University of
Louisville.  And the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation
Batteries has announced its intent to build its research, development and
manufacturing facility in Central Kentucky also.  With both cutting
edge facilities within an easy drive of the future manufacturing site, our
supply and R&D chains will become the envy of the industry,” said
Dodd.

    


    In 1998
Dodd then founded his own  business with the encouragement and support
of Toyota and grew annual revenues to over $700 million by supplying Tier One,
just-in-time, and sequenced automotive components from its eleven manufacturing
facilities to Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, Ford and General
Motors.

    


    
      
        
        

      

      
        
        

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    

    About
ZAP

     

    ZAP has
been a leader in electric transportation since 1994, delivering over one hundred
thousand vehicles to consumers in more than seventy-five countries. ZAP
manufactures a line of electric vehicles, including electric city-cars and
trucks, motorcycles, scooters, and ATVs. ZAP sells some of the only electric
city-speed cars, trucks and vans in production today and is developing a freeway
capable electric vehicle called the ZAP Alias.

    


    Forward-Looking
Statement

     

    This
press release contains forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that
such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including,
without limitation, continued acceptance of the Company’s products,
increased levels of competition for the Company, new products and technological
changes, the Company’s dependence upon third-party suppliers, intellectual
property rights, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s
periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    


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