ZAP has been a pio­neer in the elec­tric vehi­cle cir­cuit for sev­er­al years, and is final­ly giv­ing lithi­um bat­ter­ies a try. The com­pa­ny is ship­ping lithi­um bat­tery sys­tems for var­i­ous mod­els in its wide array that pro­vide own­ers at least four times the life of stan­dard lead-acid bat­ter­ies and twice the dri­ving range.