Zenn Electric on eBay

The first time I saw one of these in the wild was the other night when I pulled up to a red light: there it sat, cute as a button, the word "Electric" emblazoned across its door, silently waiting to turn left. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what I was looking at. Turns out it was a Zen 2.22 Electric Car, and there’s currently one for sale in Ohio. Battery range and top speed aren’t overly impressive (40-60 miles and 35 mph, respectively), but the dealer window sticker indicating 245 city miles per gallon sure gives you a little case of the gimmies, doesn’t it? It might be fun to have as your around-town errand car, as long as your town, unlikelike Seattle, isn’t criss-crossed with 60 mph highways.