Electric Vehicles

Gogoro begins battery swapping in India

Written by Tanisha Arora

Gogoro Inc. at present being a technologically leading company in battery swapping has enabled sustainable mobility solutions by introducing battery swapping platforms and Smartscooters in Delhi NCR. This launch is a part of Gogoro and Zypp Electrics’ focus on accelerating the adoption of sustainable last-mile deliveries.

Holding the 62% market share in the Indian market, the sale of electric two-wheeler has crossed the million mark showing 58% growth in India’s sales of electric vehicles. Evident growth of this segment will be seen keeping in mind that battery swapping will be safe, convenient and scalable. This can provide rides with quick accessibility to charged batteries.

What is Gogoro Doing?

Gogoro has successfully created a benchmark of a 6-second battery swap and Go-battery swapping for the two-wheeler segment and has eliminated the current challenge of finding places and endlessly waiting for charging. This proves itself to be quicker than an atypical refuelling stop for last-mile deliveries where the vehicles are often on the road all day long and it is difficult to find time to stop and charge.

Gogoro & Zypp Together

The partnership of Gogoro and Zypp can ensure sophisticated battery swapping and help delivery executives to manage their fleets and deliveries efficiently and sustainably.

Gogoro Smartscooters makes itself the most advanced electric scooter by inculcating connectivity and app integration, security for the rider and the scooter itself. Gogoro has built a strong network of 540,000 riders and has, at present, 1 million smart batteries in circulation through 12,000 battery-swapping stations in over 2,500 locations. It has unveiled 4 battery-swapping stations in India at present. 4 in Gurgaon and 2 in Delhi. The concept of battery swapping has saved more than 625,000 tonnes of CO2 since it launched and has, to date, swapped 450 million batteries.

Gogoro in the market

Gogoro is an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping and managing battery availability and safety through the utilization of AI for advanced cloud services.

Currently, in the two-wheeler electric vehicle space, especially in the scooter segment we have products such as Ather 450X Gen 3, Bajaj Chetak, Ola S1 Air, Hero Electric Optima CX and many more. The growth and succession of Gogoro’s strategic partnership of battery swapping and Smartscooter with Zypp Electrics will be known only over time.

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