Yamaha is increasing its portfolio of Gogoro-powered autos with the new EMF electric scooter. The Yamaha EMF joins the present EC-05 that launched in 2019. Utilising Gogoro’s battery swapping platform, the EMF will launch available on the market in Taiwan in March.
This will not be the primary cooperation for the 2 firms, which had launched the sister mannequin again in 2019. The electric scooters have been designed using Gogoro’s Development Kit (GDK), altho the precise design of the Yamaha EMF was created by Yamaha Motor’s native Taiwanese subsidiary. The subsidiary may even be producing and advertising and marketing the automobile.
While the whole technical specs haven’t been launched, it has been revealed that the scooter runs on a 7.6 kW mid-mounted motor. Acceleration from 0-50 km/h (31 mph) is supposedly doable in a time of three.5 seconds, nevertheless, the highest velocity is but to be introduced.
Yamaha has, nevertheless, launched a reasonably futuristic video that additionally seems to counsel the scooter has one thing to do with the lights approaching in a metropolis. Whether this can be a touch upon the autos comparatively low power utilization compared to an electric automobile will not be clear. In Japan, the difficulty of power utilization has prompted automakers to delay electrifying their automobiles for a while.
Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro stated: “Yamaha and Gogoro remain committed to bringing better and more sustainable transportation solutions to market that integrate Yamaha’s incredible vehicle design and engineering together with Gogoro’s leading battery swapping.”
Gogoro battery swapping stations seem like they may outnumber petrol stations in Taiwan earlier than the 12 months is out. The Powered by Gogoro Network (PBGN) is open to prospects with motorbikes and electric moped scooters from Yamaha Motor, Aeon Motor and Motive Power Industry and likewise contains India’s Hero Motorcorp and China’s Yadea and DCJ. A few months in the past, Gogoro and belt-drive specialist Gates revealed a new belt drive system known as Flo Drive that will likely be out there for producers within the community.
Gogoro at present boasts of a community that features greater than 450,000 riders and over 10,000 battery swapping ‘GoStations’ at over 2,200 areas. The Gogoro Network at present handles roughly 330,000 battery swaps per day with greater than 250 million complete battery swaps to this point.
Including reporting by Carrie Hampel
gogoro.com, electrek.co