Gogoro & Nebula Vitality Launch Battery Swapping Ecosystem & Gogoro CrossOver Smartscooter in Nepal

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Initially out there for B2B prospects within the metropolis of Kathmandu, Gogoro Battery Swapping is scheduled to be out there to shoppers later this yr.

Gogoro’s entrance into Nepal is an extension of its India commercialization and makes use of Gogoro’s new India-made CrossOver GX250 Smartscooter.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nebula Vitality and Gogoro Inc (Nasdaq: GGR), a world expertise chief in battery-swapping ecosystems that allow sustainable mobility options for cities, on Friday launched Gogoro Battery Swapping and launched the Gogoro CrossOver GX250 Smartscooter in Nepal. The announcement was made at a media occasion within the metropolis of Kathmandu, Nepal, the place the primary battery swapping station is situated. Nebula is a certified and unique accomplice of Gogoro Inc.

“Gogoro is on the forefront of sustainable city transportation and collectively we plan to contribute to Nepal’s zero-emission targets by way of this new age of sustainable vitality, mobility and expertise,” mentioned Manoj Goyal, chairman of Nebula Vitality.

“We’re proud to be partnering with an business chief like Nebula Vitality who shares our imaginative and prescient for accelerating the electrical transformation of Nepal’s two-wheel transportation business. Nepal is on the forefront of fresh vitality era and utilization and is actively selling two- and four-wheel EV adoption and our partnership is certain to make a big impression,” mentioned Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro. “Collectively, Gogoro and Nebula Vitality share a imaginative and prescient for accelerating the electrical transformation of Nepal’s two-wheel transportation business. Gogoro battery swapping is optimized to offer handy Swap & Go entry to Gogoro Good Batteries in seconds. Gogoro’s new Gogoro CrossOver GX250 is optimized for riders in Nepal with extra seating and space for storing and higher floor clearance.”

Gogoro battery swapping will initially be out there to strategic B2B prospects within the Kathmandu valley the place Nebula plans to rollout Gogoro battery swapping stations each two to a few kilometers. Nebula plans to supply Gogoro Smartscooters at shopper retail places later in 2024.

“Mass adoption of two-wheel EVs in Nepal should be enabled by way of sensible and modern applied sciences like Gogoro’s battery swapping and Smartscooters,” mentioned Sahayu Goyal, managing director at Nebula Vitality. “Gogoro’s Swap & Go battery-swapping offers a novel resolution that addresses the key challenges that Nepal riders face when deciding to purchase an electrical two-wheeler right this moment Nebula plans to put in extra Gogoro battery swapping stations than the variety of petrol stations in Nepal.”

“Our partnership with Nebula Vitality is a pure extension of our India commercialization and we’re excited to be leveraging our new India-based manufacturing capabilities to ship the brand new Gogoro CrossOver to Kathmandu,” mentioned Yang Chen, vice chairman of Gogoro.

Gogoro CrossOver Smartscooter Sequence

Nebula Vitality is introducing the Gogoro CrossOver GX250 Smartscooter, the final word Two-Wheel SUV. The GX250 is manufactured in Maharashtra, India and is Gogoro’s first India-made Smartscooter. The CrossOver sequence is constructed on a redesigned all-terrain body that allows elevated rigidity and luxury whereas providing a wide range of storage, using, and customization capabilities. The CrossOver GX250’s new body design significantly will increase the sturdiness of the suspension system and accommodates bigger hundreds whereas emphasizing consolation and stability.

Gogoro Battery Swapping Know-how

On the coronary heart of Gogoro’s ecosystem is an open and interoperable battery swapping platform that’s acknowledged by Guidehouse Insights because the main battery swapping platform for light-weight city automobiles on this planet. Gogoro battery swapping is a brand new era of swappable battery refueling that’s sensible, protected, and regularly optimizing itself to be dynamic and versatile for riders, companies, and communities.

In Taiwan, the Gogoro Community helps greater than 600,000 riders and has greater than 1.4 million sensible batteries in circulation by way of its community of 12,500 battery swapping stations at over 2,500 places. Presently Gogoro has over 90% market share in electrical two wheelers in Taiwan and the variety of GoStations outnumbers petrol stations. With greater than 400,000 every day battery swaps and greater than 570 million complete battery swaps up to now, Gogoro battery swapping has saved greater than 870,750 tons of CO2 because it launched in 2015.

Battery swapping is an modern idea that includes the short alternative of a depleted battery with totally charged ones, offering customers with a fast and environment friendly strategy to prolong their car’s vary. Battery swapping expertise helps remedy the present obstacles for wide-scale adoption and addresses the city cellular vitality calls for in a protected, sustainable, and scalable manner. Gogoro’s Battery Swapping addresses most of the issues related to electrical two-wheeler adoption in Nepal together with:

• Discount in complete price of possession
• Addressing issues relating to battery possession and alternative price
• Mitigating vary nervousness as battery swapping is the quickest strategy to refuel a car; faster than ICE automobiles.
• Decreasing charging time – no requirement of self-charging as swapping can occur in seconds.

About MG Group & Nebula Vitality

Nebula Vitality is a completely owned subsidiary of MG Group and is a brand new vitality enterprise dedicated to main the best way in the direction of an environmentally sustainable and vitality impartial Nepal.

MG Group has been on the forefront of enterprise in Nepal for over three many years and is credited as a pioneer in quite a few sectors. The Group’s numerous portfolio of companies contains manufacturing business, real-estate improvement, banking and investments, hydropower improvement and electrical mobility, mirroring its unwavering dedication to fostering innovation and sustainable improvement. The Group has a concentrated deal with era and utilization of fresh vitality sources and believes that it may well contribute to Nepal’s net-zero commitments and targets.

Group Mission: Finally, as a Group, our mission is to coordinate particular person objective at scale. We intention to attach concepts, individuals and organizations to ship impression. By means of our efforts we hope to align international requirements and greatest practices to native ventures. As our focus is totally on greenfield tasks and ventures that assist speed up innovation in Nepal. This we consider will assist Nepal emerge on the worldwide platform as a lovely place to do enterprise.

About Gogoro: Based in 2011 to rethink city vitality and encourage the world to maneuver by way of cities in smarter and extra sustainable methods, Gogoro leverages the facility of innovation to alter the best way city vitality is distributed and consumed. Acknowledged by Quick Firm as “Asia-Pacific’s Most Revolutionary Firm of 2024″; Frost & Sullivan because the “2023 World Firm of the Yr for battery swapping for electrical two-wheel automobiles”; and, MIT Know-how Evaluation as considered one of “15 Local weather Tech Corporations to Watch” in 2023, Gogoro’s battery swapping and car platforms supply a sensible, confirmed, and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a brand new strategy to city mobility. Gogoro has rapidly develop into an innovation chief in car design and electrical propulsion, sensible battery design, battery swapping, and superior cloud providers that make the most of synthetic intelligence to handle battery charging and availability. The problem is very large, however the alternative to disrupt the established order, set up new requirements, and obtain new ranges of sustainable transportation progress in densely populated cities is even larger. For extra data, go to www.gogoro.com/information and observe Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.