Singapore is the latest stop on Gogoro’s worldwide expansion tour, bringing the company’s industry-leading battery swapping to local riders and expanding the sale of its electric scooters in the local market.
Today Gogoro announced that it has been certified to launch its battery-swapping and Smartscooters in Singapore. The company will launch with its exclusive distribution partner, Cycle & Carriage (C&C), in Q4 2024, who will make Gogoro Smartscooters available to both commercial customers and consumers alike.
The expansion marks yet another major launch for Gogoro, which has now expanded throughout much of Asia while also rolling out early operations in the Middle East and South America.
C&C also announced a partnership with Shell Recharge to launch Gogoro’s battery-swapping GoStations at Shell service stations in the Singapore market. Those GoStations are key to the company’s business model. They allow riders to swap out Gogoro’s batteries in seconds, which is even faster than a traditional fuel fill-up at a gas station—and much cleaner. It’s a move Gogoro has used several times before, partnering with local distributors to either pilot its scooters and battery-swapping in new cities, or to begin sales outright while rolling out swap stations installed at local service stations. Due to the small footprint of Gogoro’s GoStations, an area of just one conventional parking space is needed to service dozens, or sometimes hundreds, of electric scooter riders.