The Gogoro Smartscooter was revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is the first high-performance, zero emissions, connected two-wheeled electric vehicle on the market—but in many ways the bigger story today is actually the Gogoro Energy Network. The Gogoro Energy Network is a battery-swapping infrastructure that can be deployed across a city to give people access to portable power through battery vending machines called GoStations. The Smartscooter is the first to be integrated into the Gogoro Energy Network, and both will begin initial rollout later this year.
* Zero to 30 in 4.2 seconds
* Top speed of 60 mph
* Fifty-fifty weight distribution
* range of around 100 miles per charge
Pull up to a battery swap station [kind of like a Redbox DVD station], each of which holds eight 20-pound batteries. Pull your dead battery out of the scooter, swap it for a fresh on in the battery bank and off you go. It takes six seconds.
That makes the question of charging times—a significant speed bump for EV adoption—almost moot. Who cares how long a battery takes to charge, as long as it’s juiced up when you pick it up? “We no longer want to talk about charge time,” Luke says. “We want to talk about swap time.”
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* Zero to 30 in 4.2 seconds
* Top speed of 60 mph
* Fifty-fifty weight distribution
* range of around 100 miles per charge
Pull up to a battery swap station [kind of like a Redbox DVD station], each of which holds eight 20-pound batteries. Pull your dead battery out of the scooter, swap it for a fresh on in the battery bank and off you go. It takes six seconds.
That makes the question of charging times—a significant speed bump for EV adoption—almost moot. Who cares how long a battery takes to charge, as long as it’s juiced up when you pick it up? “We no longer want to talk about charge time,” Luke says. “We want to talk about swap time.”
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