Gogoro Inc (睿能創意) is working with Uber Eats to push for a faster switch to green mobility among the latter’s food delivery drivers in Taiwan, the electric scooter maker said yesterday.
The two firms are to offer a NT$6,000 subsidy for delivery drivers to purchase new Gogoro vehicles under a two-year partnership, it said in a joint statement.
Delivery drivers would also receive discounts on new battery-swapping programs from Gogoro, the statement said.
Photo courtesy of Gogoro Inc
The company has deployed 2,800 battery-swapping systems in Taiwan.
Up to 16,000 delivery drivers are expected to replace their scooters with new Gogoro models over the next two years, Uber Eats Taiwan general manager Chai Lee (李佳穎) told a news conference in Taipei.
The companies expect the Green Mobility Program to double the number of electric vehicle trips to 40 percent of overall trips by 2025, from 20 percent currently.
“It would bring cleaner air to cities across Taiwan,” Lee said.
As both companies have grown globally, they hope to expand their collaboration to more markets beyond Taiwan.
In Taiwan, about 26 percent of food and parcel delivery riders of electric scooters utilize Gogogro’s battery swapping system through 2,800 stations, according to the electric scooter supplier.
“We expect to see this strategic partnership in many more countries and markets soon,” Gogoro Taiwan general manager Henry Chiang (姜家煒) said.
Asked whether India would be the next destination for the companies’ green-mobility push, Chiang said they are exploring all sorts of potential collaborations.
Looking forward, Gogoro’s strategy next year would be expanding its sales networks, including adding more small neighborhood stores and broadening its product portfolios with different price ranges for target riders, he said.
Gogoro has opened 200 neighborhood stores so far this year, surpassing its target of 150 stores.
Intel Corp chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan (陳立武) is expected to meet with Taiwanese suppliers next month in conjunction with the opening of the Computex Taipei trade show, supply chain sources said on Monday. The visit, the first for Tan to Taiwan since assuming his new post last month, would be aimed at enhancing Intel’s ties with suppliers in Taiwan as he attempts to help turn around the struggling US chipmaker, the sources said. Tan is to hold a banquet to celebrate Intel’s 40-year presence in Taiwan before Computex opens on May 20 and invite dozens of Taiwanese suppliers to exchange views
Application-specific integrated circuit designer Faraday Technology Corp (智原) yesterday said that although revenue this quarter would decline 30 percent from last quarter, it retained its full-year forecast of revenue growth of 100 percent. The company attributed the quarterly drop to a slowdown in customers’ production of chips using Faraday’s advanced packaging technology. The company is still confident about its revenue growth this year, given its strong “design-win” — or the projects it won to help customers design their chips, Faraday president Steve Wang (王國雍) told an online earnings conference. “The design-win this year is better than we expected. We believe we will win
Chizuko Kimura has become the first female sushi chef in the world to win a Michelin star, fulfilling a promise she made to her dying husband to continue his legacy. The 54-year-old Japanese chef regained the Michelin star her late husband, Shunei Kimura, won three years ago for their Sushi Shunei restaurant in Paris. For Shunei Kimura, the star was a dream come true. However, the joy was short-lived. He died from cancer just three months later in June 2022. He was 65. The following year, the restaurant in the heart of Montmartre lost its star rating. Chizuko Kimura insisted that the new star is still down
While China’s leaders use their economic and political might to fight US President Donald Trump’s trade war “to the end,” its army of social media soldiers are embarking on a more humorous campaign online. Trump’s tariff blitz has seen Washington and Beijing impose eye-watering duties on imports from the other, fanning a standoff between the economic superpowers that has sparked global recession fears and sent markets into a tailspin. Trump says his policy is a response to years of being “ripped off” by other countries and aims to bring manufacturing to the US, forcing companies to employ US workers. However, China’s online warriors
RSS