ZEV is a USA manufacturer with the VIN sequence 1Z9.

ZEV listed in the EPA "Verify" system under the name ZEV. 

ZEV is a group of hard core aerospace and mechanical engineers and business people that banded together to prove they could outflank, out design, and out perform everyone else in the alternative fuel vehicle market.  We are all racers and designers of spacecraft, motorcycles, rockets, race cars, race boats, unmanned drone aircraft, and piloted aircraft. High performance and sophisticated engineering is spoken here.  Simultaneously our senior management (+30 years) is internationally experienced, with numerous startups and Fortune 500 operations on their resume.  Senior management spent over thirteen weeks a year on the road last year in the factories of suppliers for both ZEV and for the corporate customers who hire ZEV to design their electric vehicles and police their production.  We all firmly believe that electric vehicles are the fuel and environmental solution.  We believe that the way to change the world is to build the world changing products. We are the guys that the huge companies hate.  We like to show up at the races with a small shop built something and take home the trophy.

ZEV engineers are part of the same engineering group hired by other larger companies to tell them how to make their electric vehicles or hired to design the electric vehicles.  ZEV is what you get when you ask the engineers to design vehicles for themselves.

ZEV USA is a Nevada domiciled corporation with shipping facilities currently in Pa. and WV. (to be joined shortly by sites on the west coast)  We do subassembly in China of some components and finish assembly with USA made components in the USA.  The testing operations are  conducted in the mountains of WV. and the Pa. back roads.  Our test riders run the long steep mountain grades, rough roads, sub zero and 90 degree temperature, high humidity, through lots of rain to put our vehicles to the test.