Re: The Gogoro - Tesla of Scooters! Quote:
Originally Posted by Tushar Quite an interesting concept. Taking the charge time issue out of the equation will definitely help make it easier to use, especially for campus towns. Should be good for tourist rental services as well. Just wondering how cost effective this will be. Apart from the cost of looking after those batteries and hubs, the real estate needed for keeping the GoStations will definitely need to be a consideration. |
From the looks of it, the GoStation Hubs will not have to be owned by you as a scooter rider. Thats going to be a separate business model. You will probably pay to get your batteries charged. Also, for establishing a GoStation, the minimum required is a single hub that seemingly charges up to 8 batteries. So the business of charge stations can be started from a very small space as well. Of course the bigger ones will have many so called chained hubs (is that something like connected in series?).
As it says somewhere, that scooter is probably just the shop front. The real business is going to be the Charging Stations for the future. It uses the same batteries that Tesla does. So you can charge even those batteries. And even if it proves a small success you will soon see a surfeit of devices and vehicles that probably will use similar "standard" batteries that can be charged at the same charging stations.
I think there is a great possibility here. No wonder they are getting the funding from the VCs. |