Battery Swap Technology in Taiwan

You hear about battery swap technology, it sounds great on paper but actually using it in a real world situation is just amazing. In Taiwan, they have battery swap tech deployed and widely used in their electric scooters already. The battery stations are all over the place and rental of the scooters are cheap. Gogoro line of scooters are everywhere and it really does seem to help reduce city pollution. I'm excited to share with you this tech and hopefully, we will get something similar soon in the states. Although, scooters are not really feasible in the states due to things being very far apart distance wise. Enjoy this video!
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[@EtherealReality]

It seems like a pretty efficient infrastructure setup. making the battery swap as easy as possible is very important for the average person to be able to use the scooters.

[@BeatTheBush]

Sooo many battery stations. It's so cool to see it so widely used.

[@pedrozatravel]

Very interesting, unfortunately I think this will not work in the USA because people like to vandalize stuff, but it is a great concept.

[@BeatTheBush]

I think so too. You'll see a scooter rented and thrown in the river. But I suppose it could work if they hold the renter to damages?

[@pedrozatravel]

@@BeatTheBush the only thing I can think of is if they have to be turned in to enclosed lockers, then maybe.

[@MrRj600rr]

I agree, USA can’t have fun stuff like this.

[@rached8161]

Some Americans lack education and good mannner media also helps them on that

[@themagicrat8803]

Same here in the UK, thieves will steal the batteries and use them to power other items.

[@Quitenice]

The shower cap is quite thoughtful ❤️😊

[@BeatTheBush]

=D I'm surprised they have it since it's consumable. They have to refill it somehow.

[@AJ31CO]

This would never work in America. Too many people don't care about each other. It's the land of "screw the next person"

[@streibus]

This would've worked in America in the 50s or 60s. Hear me out, I think the main difference is diversity in USA today. Taiwan and Japan are 97% Chinese and 97.8% Japanese respectively. Crime is practically non-existent in both countries compared to America. If you can think of a better correlation-causation to explain this difference let me know.

[@tdgdbs1]

@@streibus Root cause is politicians pampering certain groups.

[@BeatTheBush]

Interesting take on that. Homogeneus race is the source? Could petty crimes not have sever enough penalty in the US? I think this can get to be a really deep rabbit hole.

[@Z0mb13ta11ahase]

@@BeatTheBush I think he's saying that nobody would swap out the battery, they'd just ride to another scooter and get on that one when the scooter they are riding gets low.

[@captainbroady]

​@BeatTheBush actually yea race/ethnicity is one of the issues. When you have a country so diverse with new immigrants coming in all the time, it's hard to instill or cultivate a "common culture" where everyone treats each other respectfully and looks out for one another (since every race/ethnic group is going to have their own set of customs and traditions). Another big issue is obviously education

[@kpboix99]

That’s neat, I’m ready to go go go!

[@GhostofTradition]

nice to see another travel video

[@BeatTheBush]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@pinaytaiwanderer3194]

I like your accent❤️thanks for all infos about gogoro

[@BeatTheBush]

My pleasure 😊

[@ebongais1]

I think that would also be coming to the Philippines. I read news here about that.

[@nicholasvillarreal2051]

We had those in austin texas for awhile. But the city got ride of them

[@2ry1n]

FYI, you need an international drivers permit to drive in a foreign country. Get it at any AAA office.

[@marcusoconner2805]

Love it! Love it! Love it!

[@BeatTheBush]

Same. I liked it so much, I keep on staring at the Gogoros and pointing every single one out, looking at all the different models, trying to find a way to use one to make this video. =D

[@Yarcofin]

For a rental this is okay. For a car I own, I wouldn't want to swap out battery and risk trading for an older or defective battery with 30% less capacity.

[@shakingwater]

I'm pretty sure the current battery swaps for cars have built in diagnostics to detect charge capacity and battery damage. So the station won't swap with a defective battery.

[@StefanUrkel]

Beat the bush do a video from night markets. That will be awesome!

[@DenisLiang]

thats not the point since if it even happened you could swap again. You dont own the batteries

[@jimv77]

Pretty similar to propane tank exchange I would think. If something is wrong with your tank, just swap it and let Blue Rhino deal with the problem. Or like a scratched Redbox DVD... exchange for another one and not your problem.

[@BeatTheBush]

If you own a car with battery swap tech, you have to think of never really owning the battery. You just rent it. The cost of each battery swap will bake in the battery degradation costs and the cost to have the infrastructure to do the exchange.

[@mcyplays9450]

I hope that this kind of feature and mode transportation cam be introduced here in the philippines, the only downside in our country is that there too many thieves here that is why I think that the company would never launch this in our country. this would be really helpful any terms of money saving for commuters. It really is a shame that we cannot try this. I hope this will come true in the future and all thieves can just stop stealing for the better of the country. we have electric bikes here but it is still not enough for this kind of advance feature.

[@scottscriticalmass]

Thanks for sharing BtB... What brought you to Taiwan. I've only been once and enjoyed my time there.

[@BeatTheBush]

Food! I will be gaining weight…

[@scottscriticalmass]

@@BeatTheBush 😆🤣😆Enjoy BtB!!

[@nisam1637]

Interesting. How much kilometers u used??

[@John_DaMan]

what map app did you use in taiwan? also you can speak mandarin?

[@cashmonyz]

love taiwan! cant wait to go back taipei

[@delbomb3131]

I've wanted to go ever since watching the burts bee's documentary. Looks like a beautiful friendly place

[@raczyk]

soon to be china?

[@dominogooralsky]

You mean you love China?

[@delbomb3131]

@@dominogooralsky even if Taiwan was a part of China, it'd still be appropriate to refer to it as Taiwan...

[@cashmonyz]

@@dominogooralsky taiwan has their own languange even tho many migrated to taiwan due to communism, taiwan has their own culture. its like calling poland russia, because russia wants to be USSR again.

[@social3ngin33rin]

I hope you still read comments this long after the video is posted. I have a need for good survaylance cameras; I am wondering if you have good recommendations or are interested enough to investigate them for the channel? I need one that can work in a wide range of lighting conditions. Bright, dim, bright with a large shadow (house), and dim with a (distant) bright light source. If you may do this vid, let me know so I can hold off on my DIY/improvised home security lol

[@Stephensouraski]

Pretty cool.

[@BeatTheBush]

=D

[@lpgmorton]

I was meant to be going to Taiwan, from the UK, but then covid came along. I see tourists can now enter once again, but you have to do covid tests if you venture out within the first week - is that right?

[@BeatTheBush]

Yes, self test every 2 days for first week. They give you 4 tests.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Maybe tell us the top speed lol hard to gauge by you speeding off

[@danielj3010]

crushing TWN!

[@BeatTheBush]

=D

[@GONICR]

How can the gogoro 3 have 82km fully charged , in web its 170km

[@patrickr2686]

BTB Just wondering if you bought the Tesla dip today

[@BeatTheBush]

Nope. I hold tsla shares tho. The stock market is doing terrible! But it’ll be fine long term.

[@MyLifeThai371]

I'm surprised you haven't given your take on the FTX Scandal. It is being compared to Enron.

[@BeatTheBush]

Hmmm. My take on that is to ignore the day to day gyrations.

[@NicksDynasty]

Can you do a video about paying for discounts like (Lyftpink, Uber One, Dashpass, ect) payback period and who should subscribe to these

[@BeatTheBush]

I could never bring myself to subscribe to those since I do not order out enough. Rather, I just cook simple meals that is quick to prepare.

[@NicksDynasty]

I'm sure there are some in other segments that are not rideshare I just couldn't think of them off the top of my head. I guess just paying for discounts and benefits maybe Prime is and Spirit Airlines Saver Club are other examples

[@hotpotato1715]

Are they paying on swapping the battery?

[@samaugust5804]

How far this scooter u can ride ?

[@retrogazele]

I don't understand why this is not everywhere in Europe...

[@jonathand827]

Can’t have that in nyc, it will be broken, stolen, or accessories will be gone, sad to live in nyc as I do.

[@poisonivy509]

how about those revel scooter ones? I always see them around

[@BeatTheBush]

The mirrors will go missing, wheels, etc etc.

[@RoyalDomi]

it's quite pricy though :O if you would use it for everyday commute the price is too high in my opinion. If it can be cheaper than public transport it would make sense. Only advantage I see is that you can kind of drive whenever u want instead of waiting for bus/tram/train for like 5-6 mins. Huge disadvantage is that one needs ot be focussed during the drive while on public transport one can do some reading, active listening etc. I remember in 2019 the electro scooter hype. basically 90% of companies went bust and 2 survived.

[@BeatTheBush]

Pricy? You can make a quick 10 minute ride for $1-2 usd. Do that 4 times a day and you wont break $150 a month. Pretty reasonable to me as its much cheaper than owning a car or a scooter yourself.

[@RoyalDomi]

@@BeatTheBush I can get for 70$ a full month of public transport We also have electric bikes, scooters but they never made financial sense for me (unless ur company subsidizes the bikes to be more fit) Would be interesting to compare the public transport cost (often there is 50-60% discount for frequent users) to those scooters in the location you showed. For sure it depends on how extended the public transport network ist. But I also remember in Shanghai I travelled much cheaper by taking metro and bus than taking scooters or bikes.

[@RE2PECT]

Lol in NYC those batteries would go gotten stolen lol. we have these scoters call revel and they used to steal the batteries.

[@streibus]

Main difference between Taiwan and NYC, the type of people. You can never have nice things like this with certain types of people around.

[@nestors.menendez8455]

GDP doesn’t tell the whole picture huh? There’s more to the wealth of a nation than merely economic indicators. I mean, the us is rich but its crime rate is comparable to that of third world countries. Ultimately, what matter most isn’t the money but the values and principles of the people you share your time with.

[@MarsTheProgrammer]

Heck you can get robbed and stabbed to death for one of these bikes in nyc. There was multiple cases already of people getting killed for e-bikes.

[@jimv77]

@@streibus I believe the type of people is due to the government created environment...If Americans was executed for breaking the law....we would all be tip toeing around in our society and respect one another. Of course there would be less freedom, which comes at a cost. Theft is higher in big cities versus middle of nowhere towns for a reason. Just my opinion.

[@BeatTheBush]

I suppose if this was in NY, the entire battery station would get raided and batteries stolen.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

I would love to own an electric scooter, unfortunately when you find one that has enough speed to ride outside of a city, they are very expensive.

[@Trakusenpai]

Are you Taiwanese? I thought you were from Hong Kong. Or did a friend sign up instead?

[@dominogooralsky]

No. He is Chinese. Taiwan is part of PRC.

[@OperationNonsense]

francis is indeed HKer, i think his gf is taiwanese.

[@dominogooralsky]

@@OperationNonsense Hong Kong also belong to China.

[@OperationNonsense]

@@dominogooralsky sure, whatever you think, the entire earth is part of China. We let you daydream since it doesn’t have any affect on reality, so what do we have to lose? We pretend to agree with you, does that make you happy?

[@BeatTheBush]

I was born in Hong Kong. So I had to borrow this scooter with lots of help.

[@eightsprites]

Cool

[@BeatTheBush]

=D

[@samsebin7895]

with 2 batteries just 80 km range??

[@alleneng]

why u need to blur out the license plate?

[@BeatTheBush]

Always a good idea to avoid any issues.

[@social3ngin33rin]

wait...you have a Taiwan ID to get access to this?!?! Or you know someone with an ID?

[@BeatTheBush]

I'm not Taiwanese so I had to ask for some favors. =D

[@social3ngin33rin]

@@BeatTheBush Also, I think Taiwan is where boba milk tea was suppose to originate from; since you're there, is it better over there than here in the USA?!?!?! lol

[@sayonaravegas]

You should become a food delivery rider.

[@johntad751]

Its such a shame that Taiwan is way ahead of the US on this. Looks like they had this years ago.

[@OperationNonsense]

a lot of tech items don't make sense for the US, simply because we are way too large geographically with very low population density. in the case of this electric scooter, the range is too low for how far away everything is in the US, we don't have enough population density to make it profitable, and also we have much higher crime than the nation of taiwan, so those scooters will get stolen or vandalized immediately.

[@BeatTheBush]

Gogoro company founded 11 years ago and it appears goshare app started 3 years ago.

[@user-xx9wz8zt5f]

我現在才知道頭套放在椅墊下面...

[@upgradeit]

Nice! Please spam us with video from Taiwan.

[@BeatTheBush]

Will do!

[@Nhicki]

i think the chinese company NIO is already doing the car version of this within in china, and i believe they are in the process of expanding to Europe starting in norway.

[@BeatTheBush]

Ahhh. I should go there to see that swapping in action But man, all that robotics at each station makes it seem very expensive per station!

[@poordave9102]

this can only happen in moral country's so not comming to the USA anytime soon

[@user-do5th7gh3e]

borhia, taiwan'or soli gogoro solesi aru behuda axomia ketak bangal & marwah katai luti puti khalak

[@CSCSCS100]

It's gotten really expensive

[@BeatTheBush]

Has it increased in price since released?

[@CSCSCS100]

@@BeatTheBush Taiwan in general

[@DarKLemoN01]

$2.70 for 6 minutes drive? Omg very very expensive for everyday use.

[@user-pm9mg8vn5i]

36min

[@d.henderson1347]

People vandalize things everywhere bro they just need to be in areas where people aren’t AH and DH that’s all lolol

[@jasonbaldwin1463]

This comment is for the algorithm.

[@BeatTheBush]

Thanks!

[@HelloWorld-hb7yt]

introduce your girlfriend.

[@BeatTheBush]

Unfortunately, she doesn't want to be on KZbin.

[@tquach]

Sad music 😂

[@BeatTheBush]

That’s from some random music someone was playing on the street.

[@MyLifeThai371]

What are you doing in Taiwan? Aren't you worried about the invasion?

[@BeatTheBush]

To make this video of course! Worried? Not too much, if something happens, I'll fly out.

[@privateinferno3034]

China wouldn’t step ashore anyways.