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Battery swap tech increases

in Asia

PHILIPPINES BANGALORE-BASED SUN Mobility has adding a deal with the Indian state of Maharastra
announced an agreement with Pilipinas Shell just a week ago.
Petroleum to enable the deployment of SUN’s Speaking of the deal, e-mobility and innova-
battery swapping stations across the Philippines. tions manager at Pilipinas Shell, Jolo Valdez, said:
The Indian joint venture (JV) between the “Shell is happy to work with both the private and 250+ swap
Maini Group and SUN Group was signed in 2017, public sectors to develop solutions that will decar-
and has gained a sizeable market share across bonise mobility and transport. points in 18
India as one of the sub-continent’s leading pro- Both 2-wheel and 3-wheel electric vehicles
moters of electric vehicle (EV) technology. are projected to be a major cause for logistics cities across
The partnership with Philipinas Shell will companies and other fleet operators in the com-
see both firms work to increase sales of EVs ing decades, and this pilot deployment aims to India (and)
throughout the country, largely on the back of the test the feasibility of smart battery swapping powering over
deployment of SUN manufactured ‘Swap Points’ services and technology for the Philippine B2B
containing smart batteries developed in India. use case.” 55 million km
With SUN Mobility having also recently estab- Adding his own take, Ajay Goel, the
lished itself in Japan, another of East Asia’s most co-founder of SUN Mobility, said: “we intend to and 3 million
populous nations, its deal in the Philippines will bring our industry-leading technology along with
see it in direct competition with Taiwan’s own bat- our substantial on-ground experience after hav- swaps so far.
tery swapping refuelling platform Gogoro, which ing deployed 250+ swap points in 18 cities across
announced its own deal with 917 Ventures and India (and) powering over 55mn kilometres and
the Ayala conglomerate in late November before 3mn swaps so far.” ™

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