Gogoro’s electrical scooters with swappable batteries have all the time been centered on environmental accountability. However now the corporate is teaming up with main family shopper items model MUJI to take issues even additional. And it entails your plastic waste.

MUJI is a Japanese-based residence items designer model whose identify really interprets to “no-brand high quality items.” The corporate is thought for its trendy, high-quality, and affordably priced merchandise that cowl every thing from stationary, furnishings, clothes, and even meals objects.

In a brand new three-way partnership, MUJI, Gogoro, and world-renowned Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa have joined forces to collaborate on the newly designed Gogoro VIVA ME and Gogoro VIVA MIX ME electrical scooters. They’ve additionally produced a complementary vary of merchandise and equipment.

The Gogoro VIVA line of affordably priced electrical scooters was first unveiled again in 2019, debuting polypropylene physique panels produced from recycled materials. Now the brand new VIVA ME and VIVA MIX ME fashions, produced along side MUJI and Fukasawa, are taking that second-life manufacturing thought even additional.

As Gogoro founder and CEO Horace Luke defined:

Naoto Fukasawa affords such a contemporary and distinctive method to simplicity, performance and wonder in every thing he creates, so it was an honor to work with him on our new Smartscooter designs and equipment. This collaboration between Gogoro, MUJI and Naoto Fukasawa establishes a robust unified voice in selling sustainable existence in Taiwan and throughout the area, not only for transportation however throughout all facets of life. Our joint ‘Recycling for Good’ initiative promotes the discount of city air pollution by means of encouraging the general public to recycle plastics at Gogoro and MUJI shops and their reuse in our new Smartscooters.

That Recycling for Good program that Luke talked about is a brand new initiative that debuted as a part of the partnership.

Recycling for Good encourages individuals in Taiwan, Gogoro’s home market, to take part in recycling polypropylene plastic waste at Gogoro and MUJI shops and empower them to take small actions towards constructing a extra sustainable future.

Polypropylene objects recovered throughout the Recycling for Good initiative are screened, lower, granulated, reshaped, and regenerated into the physique panels of the newly unveiled Gogoro Smartscooters. The polypropylene physique materials can be made from the identical materials as MUJI’s polypropylene storage sequence.

As MUJI Taiwan normal supervisor Akihiro Yoshida defined:

MUJI and Gogoro are persevering with the idea of a sustainable way of life and collectively have created this new sequence of Gogoro Smartscooters which might be optimized for all times and the atmosphere. Gogoro’s dedication to being a sustainable enterprise is aligned with MUJI’s enterprise philosophy. MUJI isn’t just a retailer that sells items, nevertheless it creates a easy and nice life by means of complete sustainable considering and takes sensible motion for sustainability of society and the earth.

The steps add to Gogoro’s spectacular environmental figures, with the corporate’s 2.5 million customers already chargeable for decreasing 680 million kg (roughly 750,000 tons) of CO₂ emissions.

Gogoro’s electrical scooters and battery-swapping community are designed to be a easy and simple solution to substitute the necessity for riders to recharge their electrical scooters.

As an alternative of searching for out charging infrastructures like a traditional electrical bike or e-scooter, riders merely roll as much as a Gogoro GoStation and swap a pair of depleted batteries for brand new ones.

The method takes as little as six seconds, which means riders can basically immediately “recharge” and be on their means.

The corporate has expanded aggressively after dominating its home market of Taiwan, spreading its operations to almost a dozen international locations up to now.