“Honestly, if it weren’t for battery swapping — which, by the way, is even faster than filling up at a gas station — I wouldn’t use an electric bike,” the marketing executive said. Gogoro Inc founder and chief executive officer Horace Luke is pictured in an interview at the company’s headquarters in Taipei on Friday last week. Photo: Sam Yeh, AFPIt costs about 10 percent more than buying gasoline each month, he said. Global sales of e-scooters are estimated to have topped 25 million units in 2020, or 35 percent of total sales of two-wheeled vehicles, BloombergNEF said. “I think battery swapping was a real game changer and is a real game changer,” Luke said.

Source: Taipei Times January 20, 2022 00:59 UTC