of electric scooters in taiwan. everybody is moving into cities and living on top of each other, and the need for adopting electric transportation as a cleaner mode of transportation. but here comes the problem — chicken and egg. without the proper infrastructure, nobody will ever adopt a mobility solution that is electric, because charging in these big cities are next to impossible. and this is gogoro's solution to that problem. riders own special electric bikes, but not the batteries inside them. instead, when they are running low on power, they visit a station like this to swap out their flat battery and pick up a fully charged one. a subscription of around $10—30 a month gives you access to any of the 1,400 swap stations around taiwan. gogoro estimate their customers have saved around 80,000 tonnes of c02 between them — that's roughly 25,000 across the world flights. over in san francisco, one company has a different take on the battery swapping business. these are drive—in swapping stations from startup ample. you just park up and within minutes a series of robots remove the empty batteries from your vehicle and swap