Kwang Yang Motor Co (光陽工業) has clinched a deal to help HCT Logistics Co (新竹物流) electrify its scooter fleet, the company said yesterday.
HCT Logistics plans to gradually replace its 1,000 gasoline-powered scooters with Kwang Yang’s Ionex electric models, starting in the nation’s six special municipalities, and it is also on track to retire its 3,000 gasoline-powered vans.
The deal also offers tailor-made tariffs for HCT riders using electric batteries at Kwang Yang’s swapping stations.
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“With more battery swapping stations deployed, we are seeing more opportunities coming in,” Kwang Yang chairman Allen Ko (柯勝峰) said yesterday. “We are bullish about the growth potential in the commercial segment.”
Kwang Yang’s electric scooters are also used by Global Express Logistics Co (全球快遞), as well as scooter sharing service providers Wemo Corp (威摩科技) and Hotai Leasing Corp (和運租車), the company said.
Kwang Yang said it is working with Shihlin Electric & Engineering Corp (士林電機) to develop motors used in electric scooters. Shihlin Electric’s motors now power Kwang Yang’s S-series electric scooters.
Both Shillin Electric and HCT are subsidiaries of Yeangder Group (仰德集團).
Kwang Yang said it aims to add 600 more battery swapping stations next year to expand the number to 2,600 nationwide.
The company is also looking to boost the overseas sales of its electric scooters, Ko said, adding that the company next year would restart discussions with potential partners such as Grab Inc.
Looking forward, Ko said Taiwan’s scooter market is likely to see a 10 percent decline in sales next year as consumers become more conservative about spending on non-essential items amid a weakening economy and mounting uncertainty.
However, sales of electric scooters would make up a bigger share of the local scooter market next year, from about 11 percent of total sales of new scooters this year, he said.
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