Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 04:30:38 +0000
Gogoro is a company we love to follow here at CleanTechnica. They got their start in Taiwan, where scooters are already immensely popular. But, Gogoro figured out a way to make it easier to keep an electric scooter charged up in a country where most people don’t have access to a plug where they park, […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:05:58 +0000
How did a US/Norwegian national end up founding a business in Ghana with the aim of advancing energy access in Ghana and beyond? Well, Erik Nygard lived in Ghana during his formative years, before going to university in the US and then the UK. His family moved across West Africa for over 30 years, mainly […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:05:15 +0000
One of my favorite musicians is the legendary Chimurenga music icon Thomas Mapfumo, from Zimbabwe. Due to the heated political environment in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s (it still is, you can say), Thomas Mapfumo moved to the US. Although he had traveled to perform in the US several times before settling there, I assume […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:56:03 +0000
I wrote a long article about NIO in the summer 2022. I had visited NIO and the NIO House in Oslo in the spring. While most of the visit was a conference about NIO, the next day we did have the opportunity to drive and use the battery swap station outside of Oslo. It was […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:36:46 +0000
We’ve written about Gogoro in the past about how amazing its battery swap system is for electric scooters and motorcycles. With this company, you don’t have to worry about finding a power plug as seen in this short video. Gogoro’s innovative Taiwan-based batteries can simply be dropped off at a charging station or (if you’re […]
Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:00:32 +0000
Electric 2-wheelers have been part of the last-mile transportation in the Philippines since 2006 when the first electric bicycles and scooters came in from China. These vehicles were however, low mileage, and high maintenance using heavy lead acid batteries for power. In 2010 the Asian Development Bank funded 3-wheeled electric transportation to replace the smoke-spewing […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:00:51 +0000
In some past articles, we’ve been pretty excited about Gogoro. The Taiwan-based company offers an innovative battery swap system that’s ideal for electric scooters and motorcycles parked in places where a power plug might not be available. Instead of having to bring the whole vehicle to the charging station, you simply remove the batteries and […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:15:20 +0000
The motorcycle sector is now the biggest vehicle segment in Kenya. The number of motorcycles registered in 2021 was more than 1.5 times the number of motorcycles registered in 2018! This is impressive growth over the past 6 years. Motorcycle taxi riders, the largest user segment of motorcycles in the country, are constantly battling skyrocketing […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:00:35 +0000
In Delhi, India, Gogoro Inc. and Zypp Electric have announced a strategic B2B initiative and partnership that will accelerate the urban shift of logistics fleets and last-mile deliveries to electric using battery swapping. Gogoro is one of the global leaders in battery-swapping technologies offering sustainable mobility solutions to cities. Zypp Electric is one of […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:43:51 +0000
While Tesla fans and logistics companies anxiously await deliveries of the first electric Semis, China leads the world in low-emissions trucking. Bloomberg reports that light commercial electric vehicle sales have gone from 1% of market share to 10% in the last two years, and may be a big factor in early onset peak oil demand. […]