Gogoro Inc (睿能創意), a supplier of battery swapping services and electric scooters, yesterday said that Singapore’s Land Transportation Authority has approved its participation in a sandbox pilot to deploy and validate battery swapping as a means for next-generation smart mobility.
Gogoro is tapping into the Singaporean market as it seeks to expand its global footprint, which includes China, India and Indonesia in the past two years.
The Taoyuan-based company said it is partnering with Jardine Cycle & Carriage, a diversified group with market-leading businesses across Southeast Asia, for the Singapore venture.
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Jardine Cycle & Carriage’s subsidiary Cycle & Carriage will be the exclusive distributor of Gogoro’s electric scooters in Singapore, as well as the operator and installer of Gogoro’s battery-swapping infrastructure in the city-state, Gogoro said in a statement.
“Cities are in desperate need of sustainable transportation solutions, not just for consumers, but for businesses. Gogoro battery swapping provides a sustainable path for urban fleets that is safe, reliable, scalable and always available,” Gogoro founder and CEO Horace Luke (陸學森) said in the statement.
In Taiwan, Gogoro’s battery-swapping facilitates more than 25 percent of all quick commerce deliveries like food and online purchases ,and nearly 100 percent of all electric deliveries, Luke said.
“We are partnering with Jardine Cycle & Carriage Group to introduce this new sustainable business model for food delivery and logistics fleets in Singapore today and in other cities across the region in the future,” Luke said.
Launching soon, the Gogoro battery-swapping sandbox pilot will include Gogoro’s electric scooters, GoStation battery swap stations and smart batteries.
Cycle & Carriage will manage Gogoro’s battery-swapping network and vehicle fleet in Singapore. It will also work with a variety of food delivery and logistics fleets in the country.
The Gogoro sandbox supports Singapore’s Green Plan 2030 and its transition to sustainable energy and transportation.
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