One of the most exciting product announcements to happen at the Consumer Electronics show over the past few years was the Gogoro electric scooter. It’s not just that it was slick-looking, or fast, or that the company was promising a clever battery swap station model to help ease the problem of charging. On a broader level, much like Tesla’s electric cars, the Gogoro scooter felt like the best representation of an idea that was already kicking around but hadn’t been fully executed. It felt like the first smart, sharp, two-wheeled electric vehicle.
Gogoro’s scooter came at a time before the world’s biggest automakers started making multibillion dollar promises about electrifying their fleets. And even then it felt like a sign. If Tesla...
