Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan, President: Yoshihiro Hidaka) and Gogoro Inc. (Headquarters: Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Founder and CEO: Horace Luke) announced today that they have begun a study towards collaboration in the electric vehicle (EV) business in the Taiwan market.Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan, President: Yoshihiro Hidaka) and Gogoro Inc. (Headquarters: Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Founder and CEO: Horace Luke) announced today that they have begun a study towards collaboration in the electric vehicle (EV) business in the Taiwan market.

The partnership will focus on Gogoro’s advanced open battery swapping services and support for two-wheel and four-wheel vehicles.

New global investors include Temasek, Generation Investment Management, Sumitomo Corporation and the French energy giant, ENGIE

With Gogoro 2, Gogoro has extended the family of Smartscooters that deliver high-performance, smart connectivity and battery-swapping at a variety of attractive price points for a broad audience The Gogoro 2 will be available this summer in Taiwan and in other markets by the end of 2017.

COUP to begin deploying 600 Gogoro Smartscooters™ in Paris this Summer

Gogoro®, a technology leader transforming how innovation is bridging sustainable energy and urban transportation, announced today it had been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Beazley Designs of the Year awards. The exhibition will inform part of the opening program in the Design Museum’s spectacular new home of Kensington, London.

Gogoro®, a technology leader transforming how innovation is bridging sustainable energy and urban transportation, today announced it was partnering with the new Bosch subsidiary, Coup, a smart e-scooter sharing service launching in Berlin today using the award-winning Gogoro Smartscooter™.

Gogoro and Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the global independent safety science company today announced that the Gogoro industry-leading battery has become the world’s first to receive the new UL 2271 certification. UL 2271 is the world’s first set of safety standards for electric vehicle batteries and is currently the most complete and trusted safety standards internationally. Gogoro is the world’s first company to receive battery certifications from UL, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the Chinese National Standard (CNS).