CT&T United
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{{ infobox company
| name = CT&T United
| logo = Ct&tlogo.JPG
| logo_size = 200px
| type = Private
| foundation = {{Start date and age|2002}}
| location = South Korea
| key_people = Young Gi Lee, CT&T President & CEO
Joseph J. White, CT&T United COO
| industry = Automotive
| products = eZone & cZone
| num_employees =
| homepage = [http://www.ctnt.co.kr/default/ Homepage]
}}
CT&T United ({{Korean|hangul=씨티엔티}}) is a manufacturer of battery electric vehicles including the eZone Medium Speed Vehicle and cZone low-speed vehicle based in South Korea. The CT&T eZone is the only electric vehicle of its type to pass the international crash test for passenger vehicles.http://www.ctntunited.com/#/ezone {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527030652/http://www.ctntunited.com/#/ezone |date=2010-05-27 }}
American assembly
CT&T United plans a "Regional Assembly and Sales" system, in which regional joint ventures in the United States would assemble cars in small factories.{{cite press release
| publisher = CT&T United
| date = 2009-07-01
| title = CT&T ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR U.S. ELECTRIC VEHICLE PRODUCTION
| url = http://www.ctntunited.com/assets/pdf/CTT%20Market%20Launch%20Release%202009%2007-01.pdf
| accessdate = 2009-09-28
}}
On September 28, 2009 Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell announced the first two such sites would be in Pennsylvania.{{cite web
| author = Sebastian Blanco
| title = Pennsylvania ready for 400 new jobs from CT&T's electric car plans
| work = AutoblogGreen
| url = http://green.autoblog.com/2009/09/28/pennsylvania-ready-for-400-new-jobs-from-ctandts-electric-car-pla/
| publisher = AutoblogGreen
| accessdate = 2009-09-28
}} On May 7, 2010, the company and Governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle announced they would build a plant on the island of Oahu to manufacture up to 10,000 vehicles a year.{{cite web
|author = Greg Wiles
|title = Hawaii chosen as manufacturing site for electric mini-cars
|url = http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100507/NEWS01/5070353/Hawaii-chosen-as-manufacturing-site-for-electric-mini-cars
|publisher = Honolulu Advertiser
|accessdate = 2010-05-12
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100508231128/http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100507/NEWS01/5070353/Hawaii-chosen-as-manufacturing-site-for-electric-mini-cars
|archive-date = 2010-05-08
|url-status = dead
}}
None of the great plans listed above ever finalized.
While the CT&T AMERICA, INC. has been registered with NHTSA as a Low Speed Vehicle Manufacturer, they only sold few vehicles in 2009 and the company went out of business in 2015. CT&T never received the required EO (Executive Order) from CARB (California Air Resources Board) so the cars were not legal for sale in California.
Distributing in Japan
e-Zone is imported by Autorex, distributed by NAFCA (Nippon Automobile Fair Certificate Association). In Japan, eZone is classified under Kei car.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821071946/http://www.autorex.jp/ Autorex corp.(Japanese)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101126153626/http://ezone.nafca.jp/ NAFCA e-Zone website(Japanese)]
Model gallery
File:CT&T eZone.jpg | CT&T eZONE.
File:CT&T eZone Hatch rear.jpg | CT&T eZONE Plus.
File:CT&T eZone Tropic rear.jpg | CT&T eZONE Tropic.
File:CT&T Police EV.jpg | CT&T Police EV.
File:CT&T e-VAN.jpg | CT&T eVAN.
File:CT&T cZone NEV.jpg | CT&T cZONE.
References
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External links
{{commons category|CT&T vehicles}}
- [http://www.ctntunited.com/ CT&T United web site] (Defunct)
{{Automotive industry in South Korea}}
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Category:Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Category:Car manufacturers of South Korea
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2002