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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Gogoro page on 1 June 2019, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Gogoro is a venture-backed company that develops and sells electric scooters and battery swapping infrastructure.
Gogoro was founded in 2011 by Horace Luke and Matt Taylor. In its year of inception, Gogoro secured $50 million in seed funding from Dr. Samuel Yin of Ruentex Group and Cher Wang. In October 2014, Gogoro raised an additional $100 million in Series B funding from a collection of investors. In November 2015, Gogoro announced a $30 million round of investment from Panasonic and Taiwan's National Development Fund. In September 2017, Gogoro announced a $300 million Series C round of investment from Singapore's Temasek, Generation Investment Management, co-founded by Al Gore, Japan's Sumitomo Corporation, and French utility Engie, increasing the Smartscooter innovator's capital up to US $480 million.
Gogoro Smartscooter, the first consumer product from Gogoro, was revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January 2015. Along with the scooter, Gogoro announced a battery-swapping network under the name Gogoro Energy Network.
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| 29 May 2019 | How One Pollution-Weary Asian Island Adopted Electric Vehicles | Ralph Jennings, VOA News |