Gogoro & Nebula Power 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 12 months.

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 Power and Gogoro Inc (Nasdaq: GGR), a worldwide know-how 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 licensed 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 this new age of sustainable power, mobility and know-how,” mentioned Manoj Goyal, chairman of Nebula Power.

“We’re proud to be partnering with an business chief like Nebula Power who shares our imaginative and prescient for accelerating the electrical transformation of Nepal’s two-wheel transportation business. Nepal is on the forefront of unpolluted power era and utilization and is actively selling two- and four-wheel EV adoption and our partnership is certain to make a big influence,” mentioned Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro. “Collectively, Gogoro and Nebula Power share a imaginative and prescient for accelerating the electrical transformation of Nepal’s two-wheel transportation business. Gogoro battery swapping is optimized to supply 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 client retail places later in 2024.

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

“Our partnership with Nebula Power 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 Power is introducing the Gogoro CrossOver GX250 Smartscooter, the last 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 permits elevated rigidity and luxury whereas providing quite a lot of storage, driving, and customization capabilities. The CrossOver GX250’s new body design enormously will increase the sturdiness of the suspension system and accommodates bigger hundreds whereas emphasizing consolation and stability.

Gogoro Battery Swapping Expertise

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 autos on the earth. Gogoro battery swapping is a brand new era of swappable battery refueling that’s good, protected, and frequently 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 good batteries in circulation by 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 day by day battery swaps and greater than 570 million whole battery swaps thus far, 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 speedy and environment friendly strategy to lengthen their automobile’s vary. Battery swapping know-how helps remedy the present obstacles for wide-scale adoption and addresses the city cellular power calls for in a protected, sustainable, and scalable approach. Gogoro’s Battery Swapping addresses most of the issues related to electrical two-wheeler adoption in Nepal together with:

• Discount in whole price of possession
• Addressing issues relating to battery possession and alternative price
• Mitigating vary anxiousness as battery swapping is the quickest strategy to refuel a automobile; faster than ICE autos.
• Lowering charging time – no requirement of self-charging as swapping can occur in seconds.

About MG Group & Nebula Power

Nebula Power is a completely owned subsidiary of MG Group and is a brand new power enterprise dedicated to main the way in which in direction of an environmentally sustainable and power 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 growth, banking and investments, hydropower growth and electrical mobility, mirroring its unwavering dedication to fostering innovation and sustainable growth. The Group has a concentrated concentrate on era and utilization of unpolluted power sources and believes that it might probably contribute to Nepal’s net-zero commitments and targets.

Group Mission: In the end, as a Group, our mission is to coordinate particular person function at scale. We intention to attach concepts, folks and organizations to ship influence. By way of our efforts we hope to align world requirements and finest practices to native ventures. As our focus is totally on greenfield tasks and ventures that assist speed up innovation in Nepal. This we imagine will assist Nepal emerge on the worldwide platform as a pretty place to do enterprise.

About Gogoro: Based in 2011 to rethink city power and encourage the world to maneuver by cities in smarter and extra sustainable methods, Gogoro leverages the ability of innovation to vary the way in which city power is distributed and consumed. Acknowledged by Quick Firm as “Asia-Pacific’s Most Progressive Firm of 2024″; Frost & Sullivan because the “2023 World Firm of the Yr for battery swapping for electrical two-wheel autos”; and, MIT Expertise Overview as one in all “15 Local weather Tech Firms to Watch” in 2023, Gogoro’s battery swapping and automobile platforms provide 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 automobile design and electrical propulsion, good battery design, battery swapping, and superior cloud providers that make the most of synthetic intelligence to handle battery charging and availability. The problem is huge, 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 info, go to www.gogoro.com/information and comply with Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.