Gogoro a battery-swapping tech company has announced it will be partnering with Latin American energy company Copec to launch its battery-swapping system and Smartscooters in Chile and Colombia.
Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro, claimed the partnership is an important milestone in their mission to “transform urban transportation” and “provide an accessible path for both consumer and delivery riders to adopt sustainable urban mobility”.
Gogoro reported that last mile delivery riders ride more than six-times the distance as consumer riders on average, so enabling these delivery riders to adopt smart sustainable electric transportation should have an accelerated impact on cities.
Arturo Natho, CEO of Copec, said:
“The implementation of Gogoro’s battery swapping system in Chile and Colombia is our first entry into two-wheel electric mobility, which means that sustainable mobility will reach many more segments of the population.”
“The partnership with Gogoro will allow us to extend the benefits of electrification and generate a positive impact on people through this pioneering service in the region.”
The partnership aims to develop the first Latin American network of battery swapping stations that it is launching at Copec service stations in Santiago, Chile; and, with Terpel, a Copec company’s, service stations in Bogota, Colombia.
Gogoro battery swapping is a “new generation” of swappable battery refuelling that is intended to be smart, safe, and versatile for riders, businesses, and communities. In Taiwan, the Gogoro Network supports nearly 600,000 riders and has more than 1.3 million smart batteries in circulation through its network of 12,000 battery swapping stations at over 2,500 locations.
With more than 450,000 daily battery swaps and more than 535 million total battery swaps to date, Gogoro battery swapping has reportedly saved more than 900,000 tons of CO2 since it launched in 2015.
