PURPOSE-BUILT ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLES OFFERING PRICE PARITY WITH TRADITIONAL DIESEL TRUCKS.

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WHO WE ARE

ZO Motors Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of next-generation energy commercial vehicles, and a manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission commercial trucks designed and manufactured in Asia with a global supply chain. ZM Trucks will be ZO Motors’ brand in Europe and North America.

The company has achieved price parity with comparable diesel trucks, paving the way for small-to-large-sized companies to seamlessly transition from diesel to zero-emissions without compromise.

ZO Motors utilizes electric drive systems not just because they are green, but because the technology is superior to diesel engine platforms for intended use cases. ZO Motors provides superior cost per mile, power, reliability, and ease-of-operation.

Mission

Moving Fleet-Dependent
Business Forward.

We are leading the transition of urban transport operations from diesel-powered to zero-emission trucks.

Beyond compliance with ever-increasing regulatory restrictions, financial and operational performance is simply better. From emissions reduction to noise abatement to driver comfort, our vehicles are clearly superior.

We are revolutionizing urban vehicle fleet operations using our globally sourced, cost- optimized supply chain and manufacturing solutions, featuring the best tech stack and ecosystem of support services available to owners and operators.

We make it simpler, more cost effective and less risky to keep business moving forward.

Vision

Transportation
Transformation.

We will transform a significant segment of the transportation sector, allowing businesses to move and grow more efficiently with superior technology.

Our quiet and clean vehicles will operate freely, enjoying immunity to proliferating noise-abatement and emissions-reduction regulations restricting access to more and more of the world’s urban environments. At the same time, we will help the planet by eliminating noisy, diesel-burning work vehicles from our roadways.

OUR TEAM

Executive
Team

Joost de Vries

Chief Executive Officer
ZO Motors Global

Bob (Qing) Ye

Executive President
ZO Motors Global

Dong He

President
ZO Motors China

Chief Executive Officer
ZO Motors Japan

Hidetoyo Teranishi

Board Member
ZO Motors Japan

Robert Yam

Chief Financial Officer
ZO Motors Global

Lili (Yanli) Xu

Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer
ZO Motors Global

Harry Zhou

Chief Technology Officer
ZO Motors Global

Frank McMahon

Vice President
Business Development

ZO Motors North America

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Last Modified: 05/19/2024

Your Privacy: Overview

ZO Motors North America LLC (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.zo-motors.com/ (our “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to the information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
  • Through mobile and desktop applications, you download from this Website, which provides dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
  • ANY OTHER SOURCES.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, contact us at info@zo-motors.com.

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline. (“personal information“);
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as name@company.com; and/or
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your search queries on the Website.
  • Any other types of information the user provides.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction. 

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of ZO Motors’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by ZO Motors’s about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of ZO Motors, our customers, or others.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information: 

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

Residents of certain states, such as California may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

You may also send us an email at info@zo-motors.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their personal information.
  • Access and delete certain personal information.
  • Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
  • Data portability.
  • Opt-out of personal data processing for:
    • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
    • sales; or
    • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
  • Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@zo-motors.com.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at info@zo-motors.com.

Contact

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Joost de Vries

Chief Executive Officer
ZO Motors Global

 

Joost de Vries is a globally respected professional with more than 35 years of experience in the automotive industry and has worked with major automotive brands including AB Volvo, Tesla, Karma, and DeLorean Motor Company. Responsible for ZM Trucks’ rapid global expansion, de Vries brings a unique blend of manufacturing expertise, global sales and after sales experience.

 

de Vries is a graduate of the Institution for Car Trade (IVA) in the Netherlands, as well as INSEAD in France. He also holds a degree in International Business from Ashridge Business School in the United Kingdom.

Bob (Qing) Ye

Executive President
ZO Motors Global


Bob Ye brings decades of professional international business and merger & acquisition experience with electronics companies like Canada Nortel, Huawei Europe and LeEco Global. Ye has also held leadership roles at automotive EV startup companies like Lucid Motors.


At ZM Trucks, Ye is responsible for the global supply chain, investor relations, and merger & acquisition opportunities.


Ye holds a master’s degree from Zhongshan University and dual bachelor’s degrees in engineering and management from Huazhong University of Science and Technologies.

Dong He

President
ZO Motors China

Chief Executive Officer
ZO Motors Japan

 

With more than 15 years of experience in the automotive industry, Dong He has worked with global automotive brands such as Mercedes Benz, Lexus, Mazda, and commercial vehicle brands like Foton, JAC, Dong Feng. He has founded various automotive logistics and 3PL companies.

 

At ZM Trucks, He is responsible for the Asian Supply Chain as well as Japanese marketing company.

 

He is a graduate of Wuhan University of Science and Technology and holds an Executive MBA from China Europe International Business School.

Hidetoyo Teranishi

Board Member
ZO Motors Japan

 

Hidetoyo Teranishi brings to ZM Trucks a wide range of experience spanning across hospitality, medical and automotive sectors. Teranishi has held positions with companies such as Carbide Corporation, Resort Trust Corporation and he also established Medi Hub Corporation.

 

At ZM Trucks, Teranishi is responsible for brand expansion in Japan.

 

Teranishi is a graduate of Glendale Community College.

Robert Yam

Chief Financial Officer
ZO Motors Global


Robert Yam has more than 20 years of experience with various state-owned and private-owned listed companies in Hong Kong and China in financial management, merger & acquisition, corporate finance, and regulatory compliance practices.


At ZM Trucks, Yam is responsible for all financial compliance and accounting processes.


Yam is a CPA of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Lili (Yanli) Xu

Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer
ZO Motors Global


Lili Xu is a seasoned legal and business executive with more than 20 years of combined global firm and in-house experience at various companies including Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Deloitte’s M&A group, as well as automotive EV startup companies Byton and Rivian.


At ZM Trucks, Xu is responsible for global legal and corporate affairs.


Xu is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Harry Zhou

Chief Technology Officer
ZO Motors Global


Harry Zhou is a distinguished Chief Technology Officer with nearly 30 years of experience in the automotive industry with companies like Ford, GM, Stellantis and Nissan, specializing in electric vehicle and solid-state battery innovation. Zhou has successfully co-founded startup engineering companies. His strategic and technical expertise has significantly contributed to the evolution of intelligent mobility.


At ZM Trucks, Zhou is responsible for engineering, vehicle integration and homologation.


Zhou holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in Precision Machinery and Instrumentation.

Frank McMahon

Vice President
Business Development

ZO Motors North America

 

Frank McMahon brings nearly 30 years of experience in the automotive industry with companies like Porsche, Nissan, Fisker, Karma and DeLorean Motor Company. His technical and entrepreneurial expertise has allowed him to lead multiple companies in the vehicle, energy storage and fintech sectors.

 

At ZM Trucks, McMahon is responsible for business and process development and manufacturing.

 

McMahon is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.