and this is gogoro's solution to that problem.hen they are running low on power they visit a station like this to swap out their flat battery and pick up a fully charged one. a subscription of around $10—30 a month gives you access to any of the 11100 swap stations around taiwan. gogoro estimate their customers have saved around 80,000 tons of c02 between them, that's roughly 25,000 across the world flights. over in san francisco, one company has a different take on the battery swapping business. these are drive—in swapping stations from startup ample. you just park up and within minutes a series of robots remove the empty batteries from your vehicle and swap in fresh ones. it is an idea that is also being championed by chinese electric vehicle maker nio. they plan to build 500 stations across china this year. at the moment ample�*s system can swap batteries into compatible electric vehicles in under ten minutes. by the end of the year they say that will be down to just five. quite a big difference from the hours it can take to fu