Anyone willing to share their experience buying a gogoro with a local?
My fiance is going to buy one to obtain the subsidy, but I will primarily use it.
If we both show up to the dealership and its clear that theyre purchasing it for me to use (me testing it out, them paying with my credit card), will this cause any issues? Or is it the usual cha bu duo?
Or is it better for them to just do the entire process by themselves?
Thanks
I’m also thinking of buying a Gogoro later this year. My wife is Taiwanese, I have an ARC. We never had a scooter before.
I checked the subsidies for a new Gogoro SuperSport in Taipei City on the Gogoro website.
Just buying a new scooter = 17,000 NTD
Trading in your own old scooter = 32,300 NTD
Trading in someone else’s old scooter = 32,000 NTD
It seems we have to find the cheapest old scooter on a scrapyard first 
Aren’t foreigners also eligible for the subsidy? I went into a Gogoro store and the sales person seem to indicate that I was eligible. However, it’s not the first time I’ve been misled in Taiwan about a benefit then to find out it’s only for Taiwanese nationals. 
Have you ridden a motorcycle/ scooter here? I hope so before you buy a new one.
When I looked into it a few years ago you needed to own the scooter for a set amount of time before you qualify for the subsidy, but could have changed now.
Yes. Cars, scooters, bicycles, no problem. Just follow the flow of traffic … and watch out! I think the traffic in some European cities is even more aggressive than here.
Ooops!
Microsoft Copilot says you have to own it for one year.
Perplexity says 6 month.
Google Gemini says I have to ask the City Environmental Bureau.
AI is not that useful when you really need it 
I just went to the store and they said APRC holders qualify.
But I will check with a different location just to be sure.
You have to pay for the full price upfront, and then they apply for the subsidy for you.
Id rather not get a nasty surprise 6 months later 
Thats good, it’s a horrible feeling when you drop a new scooter.
Ask your wife, use a bit of Actual intelligence 
You could then buy another one second hand with the money you get back, they don’t really hold their value.
What I mean is, what happens if the salesperson was misinformed, you pay 80,000 and then 6 months later when the subsidy comes, its only 4000 instead of 20,000.
So I will check another shop first to make sure the info is correct and report back here.
I was meaning if it is 32k as quoted above, you could get a quite new second hand one for that.
It could be one of those cases where different officials give different answers. That’s a Taiwan thing, not an AI thing…
We have entire threads about this.
Guy
I checked with another store.
ARC holders cant get the subsidy, but APRC holders can.
For trading in the old scooter, it has to have been owned for more than 10 years.
You can, however, use the scooter of a friend for the trade in.
That probably means that if you buy an old scooter especially for the occasion of trading it in, the seller would need to accompany you to the store as a “friend”.
And without knowing the market, the price of qualifying old scooters will probably at least half of the expected subsidy - possibly even more than that.