Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/03/01
By: Lin Yu-lin and Elizabeth Hsu

Photo courtesy of Coup

Berlin, Feb. 28 (CNA) An e-scooter sharing service using Taiwan-made Gogoro electric scooters is expanding in Berlin, Paris and Madrid after its successful launch in Berlin in 2016, according to Coup, the service provider.

Five hundred more Gogoro scooters will join the Coup e-scooter fleets in those cities this year, raising the company’s network to 1,500 Gogoro e-scooters in Berlin, 2,200 in Paris and 1,350 in Madrid, said Coup CEO Bernd Schmaul on Thursday.

Under the expansion, Paris will have the highest concentration of Gogoro vehicles for Coup with 29 units available per square kilometer, followed by 19 in Madrid and 16 in Berlin, Schmaul said.

Berlin-headquartered Coup is a subsidiary of the Bosch Group, one of the world’s leading providers of parts and components for automobiles.    [FULL  STORY]