Gogoro Announces Deployment of Smart Traffic Signals in Taipei City

Gogoro Inc. and Far EasTone Telecom have announced the deployment of their jointly-developed Smart Traffic Signal Uninterruptible Power System (UPS) to nearly 200 of Taipei City's busiest intersections utilising Gogoro Smart Batteries. The commercial rollout follows the completion of a successful pilot program in 2022.

The system enhances traffic safety by enabling continuous operation of traffic lights during power outages.

The Smart Traffic Signal UPS provides long term supplemental energy using two Gogoro Smart Batteries that can be swapped without disruption to maintain continuous operation as long as necessary.

The system is a box-mounted design, which is integrated with the existing traffic signal box.

It has already been deployed to 25 of Taipei City's busiest intersections and will roll out to nearly 200 intersections by the end of the year.

 The Gogoro Network supports nearly 550,000 riders and has more than 1.1 million smart batteries in circulation through its network of 12,000 battery swapping stations at over 2,500 locations. 

Horace Luke, founder, and CEO of Gogoro, says: "We have always believed that time-shifting energy was key to enabling the sustainable transformation, not just for transportation, but across a variety of industries that need to transition from fossil fuels to electric, or for new industries that fossil fuels can't address. We are utilizing the second life of our Smart Batteries, beyond two-wheel vehicles, to address a variety of these smart city energy needs that are generating new revenue streams."

 With more than 400,000 daily battery swaps and more than 470 million total battery swaps to date, Gogoro Network battery swapping has saved more than 700,000 tons of CO2 since it launched.