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By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
Kwang Yang Motor Co (光陽工業) has set a goal of elevating electric scooter sales five-fold to 15,000 models next year, from an estimated 3,000 models this year, thanks to the extension of a authorities subsidy for electric scooter purchases and a broader distribution community.
Kwang Yang has been promoting gasoline-powered scooters for greater than 50 years beneath the KYMCO model, whereas the corporate’s fully-owned Ionex Taiwan Co (台灣光捷) is accountable for constructing and promoting Ionex-brand electric scooters.
“The company was greatly affected by the [COVID-19] pandemic from April, when we started deploying our distribution network. The sales of Ionex scooters started an upswing from the end of August. We believe the growth will carry through December,” Ionex Taiwan chief advertising and marketing officer Johnson Lin (林振盛) stated on the sidelines of a information convention in New Taipei City’s Sindian District (新店).
Photo: Amy Yang, Taipei Times
Ionex has a 5 % share of the market and expects sales momentum to additional rise next year, because it seems to enhance its distribution community to 100 from about 30 this year, Lin stated.
The authorities’s extension of a subsidy for electric scooter purchases to next year is a vital incentive for the trade, which faces heavy spending on battery improvement and battery swapping stations deployment, he stated.
The firm has put in 709 battery swapping stations to this point and is on observe to hit 1,000 models by the tip of the year, he stated.
As of Tuesday, Ionex had offered 1,969 electric scooters this year, in contrast with market chief Gogoro Inc’s (睿能) 63,383 models, authorities information confirmed.
Aeon Motor Co (宏佳騰) was next with 7,228 models, adopted by China Motor Corp (中華汽車) with 2,048 models, the information confirmed.
Gogoro operates greater than 2,100 battery swapping stations in the nation, and aims to add 583 battery swapping factors at CPC, Corp Taiwan’s (中油) service stations by the tip of this year.
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