Start-up Gogoro was founded by two former HTC executives, wants electric scooters on the market which have no fixed batteries, but removable battery packs are placed. In addition, a scooterchauffeur his scooter through an app extensively can tweak.
The electric scooter, Gogoro, that the self has about smartscooters’, are made of lightweight materials. The removable battery packs, at special charging stations to pick up, should be under the seat be placed. There can be two be placed and they are good for an average range of approximately 60 miles, converted about a 100 kilometers.
Gogoro claims that his smartscooters within 4.2 seconds from 0 to 50km/h acceleration, with the top speed at 95km/h. Depending on the country where the scooters are up for sale, the top speed however is limited.
The start-up states that the electric scooters through a mobile app extensively to tweak. For example, the layout of the dashboard be customized, as well as lichtthema, and can the scooter with it unlocked and will be locked. Also communicating with the app while driving with the electronics in the scooter to make this as economical as possible with the energy to deal with it. According to Gogoro includes the scooter, a total of 55 sensors to all kinds of information to collect. The app will also notify you when the batteries are likely to hit and shows neighboring charging stations.
Gogoro sees its smartscooters especially as a highly promising means of transport in urban environments. The company wants to earn money through the exploitation of charging points and the necessary subscriptions. It is unclear yet if and when the first smartscooters actually somewhere on the street appear.