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CT&T United

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CT&T United
Company typePrivate
IndustryAutomotive
Founded2002; 22 years ago (2002)
HeadquartersSouth Korea
Key people
Young Gi Lee, CT&T President & CEO
Joseph J. White, CT&T United COO
ProductseZone & cZone
WebsiteHomepage

CT&T United (Korean씨티엔티) 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.[1]

American assembly

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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.[2] On September 28, 2009 Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell announced the first two such sites would be in Pennsylvania.[3] 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.[4]


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

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e-Zone is imported by Autorex, distributed by NAFCA (Nippon Automobile Fair Certificate Association). In Japan, eZone is classified under Kei car.

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References

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  1. ^ http://www.ctntunited.com/#/ezone Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "CT&T ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR U.S. ELECTRIC VEHICLE PRODUCTION" (PDF) (Press release). CT&T United. 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
  3. ^ Sebastian Blanco. "Pennsylvania ready for 400 new jobs from CT&T's electric car plans". AutoblogGreen. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
  4. ^ Greg Wiles. "Hawaii chosen as manufacturing site for electric mini-cars". Honolulu Advertiser. Archived from the original on 2010-05-08. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
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