TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Scooter maker and swappable battery infrastructure supplier Gogoro continues its dominance of the electric scooter phase in Taiwan.
New information launched by the Taiwan authorities for the primary 11 months of the 12 months present Gogoro ranked first out of 9 manufacturers, with 63,383 electric scooter registrations, in line with Electrek. Aeon, which got here in second, solely had 7,228 registrations.
The remaining manufacturers included eMoving (2,048), KYMCO (1,969), PGO (1,908), Yamaha (1,535), Suzuki (649), SYM (621), with all others totaling solely 781 registrations. KYMCO and SYM are Taiwan’s two greatest scooter firms, however to date they’ve struggled to make a dent within the electric scooter sector, Electrek famous.
It’s additionally value mentioning that Aeon, eMoving, PGO, Yamaha, and Suzuki all have partnership offers with Gogoro, permitting them to make use of swappable batteries from the Gogoro Network to energy their electric two-wheelers.
Gogoro has additionally been making strikes to broaden past Taiwan. This 12 months, the corporate has signed main partnership offers for its battery-swapping community (Gogoro Network) with Hero Motocorp in India and Yadea and DCJ in China, and it signed a cope with Gojek in November to convey electric scooters and the Gogoro Network to Indonesia.
The Taiwanese firm additionally has plans to go public on the Nasdaq subsequent 12 months by a merger with particular function acquisition firm Poema Global Holdings Corp. The deal is anticipated to be accomplished within the first quarter and can see Gogoro checklist on the Nasdaq underneath the image GGR.