• Horace Luke, founder and chief executive officer of Taiwanese company Gogoro. Now eyeing regional expansion and a New York listing, Gogoro has more than 2,300 electric battery-swapping stations outside convenience stores and car parks across Taiwan, where e-bike riders stop to exchange depleted batteries for freshly charged cells. | AFP-JIJI
    Horace Luke, founder and chief executive officer of Taiwanese company Gogoro. Now eyeing regional expansion and a New York listing, Gogoro has more than 2,300 electric battery-swapping stations outside convenience stores and car parks across Taiwan, where e-bike riders stop to exchange depleted batteries for freshly charged cells. | AFP-JIJI

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Taipei – Every day, Aiden Lee joins the hundreds of thousands of people getting around Taipei on two wheels.

But when most of his fellow riders head to a petrol pump to refuel, he takes his e-motorbike to one of Taiwan’s increasingly commonplace battery-swapping stations — tech its creators say could supercharge the shift from fossil fuels.

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