I just came across this article, has anyone heard about this company? http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7484171/gogoro-smartscooter-electric-scooter-removeable-battery Electric scooter Battery swapping stations Nice design Full of fancy geeky electronic features That checklist looks very attracti…

[image] afterspivak: Wonder why the Penghu experiment failed. That’d be an excellent story. At a guess, it’s probably an extremely short story.

The story may be short–but it is not finished yet. I have no idea if the following report involves Gogoro or some other scheme, but regarding electric motorcycles on Penghu, it seems the plot has thickened: The central government is to invest a total of NT$45 billion (US$1.48 billion) by 2025 to m…

Interesting letter from American visiting from China shocked about Taiwan’s scooter pollution. I haven’t heard anything about government plans to phase out gasoline scooters. Is there anything in the works? [image] [ LETTER ] - Taipei Times Taiwan driving in the past …

thats cool and everything but i stopped reading after comparisons to china were made. i don’t even believe scooters were banned in china for environmental issues.

Being cynical, I don’t see how it would cost NT$45B to make Penghu “green”.There are 100,000 people on Penghu, so that’s NT$450,000 per person. Seems a bit unlikely, doesn’t it? You could install 5kW of PV and 10kW of heating on every rooftop, and give every adult a state-of-the-art electric scoote…

Interesting? I find it hilarious that he said “I’ll tell my friends and family to stay away from polluted Taiwan” when he lives in China. Sounds like a load of crap.

For whatever reason, local governments in China drastically raised the licensing fees for gas scooters and so made electric ones more attractive to buyers.

“I am an American living in Nanning, China. I recently paid a visit to a family living in Taiwan. Upon my arrival in Taiwan I was shocked, stunned and in disbelief that Taiwanese were still using gasoline motorcycles.” We could turn that around: I am a … and live in Taiwan. I recently paid a visit …

[image] schwarzwald: Interesting letter from American visiting from China shocked about Taiwan’s scooter pollution. Just an old nutjob. I found his Facebook profile, it wasn’t hard. Just used his name provided and “China.” Turns out he’s only been in Nanning since June 14. It’s now October, t…

I also saw the electric scooters back then, this is sad news that it wasn’t maintained. I can guess money changed hands.

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