Gadgetory

kaguro has been developing its electric scooter for three years revealing the gogoro smartscooter at CES at the start of 2015 the smart scooter was designed from scratch by gogoro and along with its stylish looks and its battery system it's a powerful little scooter - it accelerates from zero to thirty miles an hour in 4.2 seconds and has a top speed of 60 miles per hour it has a range of 62 miles and features 80 smart sensors to monitor the scooters health and performance co-founder Horace lute explains why the company chose Taipei as its pilot city Taiwan happens to have about 23 million people and onshore has 15 million scooters if you look at the overall population of Taiwan is pretty much much 1 scooter per person and its highest density of concentration per capita in the entire world for two-wheeled vehicle so we pick taipei of course the capital of Taiwan as the pilot city and the pilot program that we're going to run this summer to validate into to showcase what Google can do in a mega city like Taipei the smart scooter sells for just over $4,000 and a subscription to battery swaps will cost around $30 per month a swap takes just six seconds to complete and by the end of 2015 go-girl expects to have a 150 battery swap stations strategically installed around its launch city of Taipei to make battery swaps as convenient as possible industry experts expect the electric scooter market to expand rapidly in Asia 25 percent every year for the next decade that puts kaguro and its smart scooter front and center as the Tesla of this exciting electric scooter industry of course kogoro's ambitions for its smart scooter and its battery technology reach far beyond Taiwanese shores five years from now I'm hoping that we would make a lot more traction with you know different different cities around the world bringing this fun way of transporting yourself from point A to point B to the global scale on top of that we also you know we're also looking at different ways to manage energy and contribute back to cities you know really contributing to the smart grid you know the everybody's been talking about smart cities and smart grid we're hoping to make a lot of leeway in toward that direction coming up soon