One-minute battery swaps are spurring EV adoption in Asia
Companies like Gogoro are proving that 2- and 3-wheelers are well suited to swapsHsiao Ding Hong fell in love with his electric moped right away. The battery-powered two-wheeler doesn’t make noise, vibrate or emit any exhaust. It has a sleek gray-blue exterior, can be controlled via smartphone app and even sings for Hsiao on his birthday. Best of all, it takes just one minute to get a full charge.
That’s because Gogoro Inc., the Taipei-based company that sold Hsiao his moped, lets him swap out its twoas often as he likes for up to 630 kilometers of driving each month, all for a subscription fee of 849 new Taiwan dollars . Every weekday, as the 26-year-old university administrator rides to work in Taiwan’s Hualien city, Hsiao’s app identifies the nearest swapping station with charged batteries in stock.
Hsiao is one of many in Asia who are starting to embrace electric mobility with the help of batteries that can be changed out on the fly. While battery-swapping is complicated to implement in— part of why it has failed to catch on in the West — companies like Gogoro are proving that mopeds, rickshaws and other two- and three-wheelers are well suited to quick-and-easy battery switches, which can both alleviate range anxiety and spur wider EV adoption.
The boost can’t come soon enough, either. In India, for example, nearly 80% of vehicles sold are two-wheelers, and and rickshaws account for roughly one third of fuel consumed on the road, according to clean energy research group BloombergNEF.
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