Zap, the electric scooter and three-wheeled car maker, has secured $25 million more in funding, bringing the total to $31 million this year.

The company has a long and unusual history. See more here. At various times, it has been associated with investors/backers in China, Kentucky and the Middle East.

The latest Zap partner is Cathaya Capital, which is "backed by financier Jacques de Chateauvieux’s Paris-based Jaccar Holdings and intends to manage the investment through its affiliate Better Worlds."

Jaccar has an interesting history itself. It grew out of a group called Bourbon and has been involved in shipping, an industrial fishing concern in Reniuon and in leveraged buyouts in Mauritius, Nigeria and Vietnam.