'Game changer' e-moped batteries spread from Taiwan across Asia

This is indeed a big and important shift.

Love it. The newspaper and especially the Domino's scooters stink!

And don't get me started on the diesel soot spewing trucks idling along the roads.

Yamaha and Hero Honda are either using or investing in this system also. =Great way to keep the air cleaner and get rid of the watered-down gas sidewalk sellers.

Costs 10% more than using petroleum???? Someone is making a big profit here.

Why aren’t businesses here using electric scooters?

In the summer, the window is left open for cooling and the stench from the 2 stroke engine enters the room and wakes me up!

Time for Japanese to copy their 3rd world cleaner cousins…

Fantastic!

Time for Japanese to copy their 3rd world cleaner cousins…

Taiwan is still much more polluted than Japan. Lots of old 2-stroke scooters, work trucks, buses, PM2.5 from factories or blown in from China.

But, Gogoro is a step in the right direction.

Battery swapping- good innovation

kurisupisu - exactly.

The lack of e-scooters/mopeds here is mystifying.

With no doubt the majority of trips being short and local, e-mopeds are a no-brainer.

Clean, quiet and requiring far less maintenance should see these everywhere. But No.

As car companies in Japan didn't take the rapid surge in e-cars seriously - until recently - in order to protect their sub-contract suppliers and systems - I suspect the same reason applies.

That and pressure from Oil Inc to "Hey let's not rush into things".

Where I live, most people have been charging their ev scooters at home. Whatever works.

Great.

Of course to be really beneficial has to be coupled with green power sources to charge the batteries.

Wonder why not covered by the article?