The Geneva Motor Show is starting
Have a look if you like electric cars
Lots of new cars coming
In the meantime, Sion releases their design
Does this count ?
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Taiwan Post is testing an electric CMC Veryca
CMC is Mitsubishi, and Mitsubishi is now part of the Alliance Renault Nissan
It looks like the 33 kWh battery comes from the old Nissan Leaf
I want one !
Taiwan in the News
Taiwanâs Xing Mobility turns a 1969 Chevy Camaro into an EV
Theyâve developed a novel immersion system to cool the batteries
A Taiwanese developer of modular electric powertrains that has devised a novel way to cool batteries has turned its attention to an iconic American muscle car, converting a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro into a fully electric vehicle⌠which was on display at AutoTronics Taipei. ( April 24, 2019 - April 27, 2019)
Link to the article: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/05/02/taiwan-xing-mobility-1969-chevy-camaro-ev/?fbclid=IwAR2pP_VlUkzTgQUhnagi59gh3JB8yDlTAv5soHupoFYHXe54SpU89qnwpFA
Xing mobilityâs website: https://www.xingmobility.com/
Empowering Every & Any Vehicle Maker to Go Electric
with Simple, Affordable & Powerful EV Powertrains
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Taiwan-made Gogoro 3 released at discounted price of NT$35,980
Taiwanâs Gogoro releases Gogoro 3 featuring new design, batteries with range of up to 170 km
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) â Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro unveiled its latest model, the Gogoro 3, on Wednesday (May 8) featuring new batteries with a range of 170 kilometers and selling at a discounted price of NT$35,980 (US$1,162).
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Not the best looking scooter, a smurf or dumbo my like it.
Article needs to reflect the price in other parts of the country, or is it just to much effort for the reporter to do, i mean its only 4 days ago it was released.
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Itâs ugly!
I definitely prefer the previous generations.
Yeah itâs lazy and reads like PR.
Donât like the look of this model. Looks like cheap plastic, possibly because it is cheap plastic.
not sure why they went with this design choice. gogoro 2 looks much nicer. this looks like some sort of childs toy.
say what you will about electric cars polluting or not polluting, but in terms of air pollution it absolutely makes a difference. the air in taipei is disgusting compared to shenzhen. if taipei did the same -all electric scooters and buses - there would be a massive improvement. but then they couldnât blame all the pollution on china anymore so⌠i see why this isnât happening.
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I think itâs not happening because kymco and sym are massive Taiwanese companies, part of the reason anyway.
But then the buses are still diesel aswellâŚ
i have seen a couple of electric buses recently, but not sure if theres an actual plan for it or what.
Thereâs a plan to replace all buses with electric by 2030 if I recall correctly .
wow, just 11 years away⌠i only have to wait until iâm 45 to enjoy some clean air in taipei! brilliant!
and 2035 for scooters. so iâm actually going to be 50 until the place is really cleaned up. well at least it looks like they are doing something, thats the important thing right 
As Taiwan will find out soon , you have to see that many vehicles will be Electric . Planning on how people will charge them would be prudent . Planning cleaner electricity for them would be prudent .
I fear that it will only happen when nobody can get petrol cars anymore âŚthen the Government will panic.
Itâs happening already they know that need to add 800 buses a year so letâs see how that goes.
The charging infrastructure is very straightforward to implement for buses.
As soon as electric buses are significantly cheaper than diesel buses they will switch over, the govt should just be pushing them to do it faster!
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I have supplied Ukraine recently with Electric cars. The Government did 2 things .
Lowered import tax on EVâs
put charging systems in place in all shopping malls etc
Now EVâs have become cheap and practical
Taiwan should be looking at infrastructure to enable solar for existing housing and forcing Taipower to buy excess etc. Insisting charging points are incorporated into all New Builds. So much they could be doing .
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ontop of that, taiwan has a massive pollution problem. they should absolutely be doing more for electric, its not even up for debate imo. just shows the backwards-ness of this place as usual.
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Much of Taiwanâs electricity comes from one of the worlds largest coal burning generation stations which is also where a lot of Taiwanâs air pollution comes from. How will âdoing more for electricâ solve the âmassive pollution problemâ?
after visiting shenzhen i saw the difference it would make. shenzhen, which is in china, which still has other types of pollution and construction 24/7. the roads were amazingly clean though, it made a huge difference. the roads in taiwan are absolutely disgusting in comparison.
will electric vehicles erase all pollution? no, but it makes a huge difference for living quality.
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Power will come from coal fired plants unfortunately.
Until they somehow get over their fear of nuclear energy the only other way to get reliable, cheap, and large scale energy is coal. Wind and solar is too intermittent for anything other than hippie communes and rich homes.
If they could build like 3 more nuclear plants in Taiwan and use wind and solar for peak demands, we could be carbon free. But politics prevent that.
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