Gogoro Partners with HPCL to Rollout Battery Swapping Across Thousands of Gas Stations in India

MUMBAI: Gogoro Inc. has announced a partnership with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) to roll out battery swapping stations to thousands of HPCL retail gas outlets across India in the coming years. The partnership aims to develop a broad battery-swapping infrastructure for two-wheel vehicles that will grow and sustain a leading electric vehicle ecosystem in India that is safe, clean, and readily available across India’s cities.

Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro, said, “India is in the early stages of a massive electric transformation of its urban two-wheel transportation system, and it is increasingly evident that battery swapping is a critical component to broad adoption, so building out the swapping infrastructure is crucial.”

Amit Garg, Director of Marketing at HPCL, said, “Gogoro has demonstrated its global leadership in battery swapping and electric two-wheel innovation and with nearly 500 million battery swaps to date has developed a platform we can embrace and emulate.“

The Gogoro Network is a new generation of swappable battery refueling that is smart, safe, and continually optimizing itself to be dynamic and versatile for riders, businesses, and communities. The Gogoro Network supports nearly 600,000 riders and has more than 1.3 million smart batteries in circulation through its network of 12,000 battery-swapping stations at over 2,500 locations. With more than 400,000 daily battery swaps and nearly 500 million total battery swaps to date, Gogoro Network battery swapping has saved more than 750,000 tons of CO2 since it launched.

The partnership between Gogoro and HPCL aims to deploy a battery-swapping and electric vehicle ecosystem that is open, accessible, and scalable. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater.