foodpanda teams with Gogoro and Cycle & Carriage Singapore for green last mile delivery pilot

Gogoro and Cycle & Carriage Singapore (C&C) have announced a partnership with food delivery platform foodpanda involving a battery swapping pilot that will support smart electric two-wheel vehicles for last mile deliveries in Singapore.

Gogoro and C&C have partnered to introduce a new approach to electric refuelling for two-wheel delivery fleets using the former’s six second Swap & Go battery swapping.

Insights from the foodpanda trial will be used to guide next steps to accelerate the adoption of sustainable mobility in Singapore.

"With more than 26% of all daily quick deliveries in Taiwan enabled by Gogoro battery swapping, I am excited to be introducing our battery swapping and vehicle technologies in Singapore with two market leading partners like Cycle & Carriage Singapore and foodpanda,” says Horace Luke, founder, and CEO at Gogoro.

“Cities like Singapore are at an inflection point of sustainability and are beginning to embrace sustainable transportation in new impactful ways.”

“On average, last mile delivery riders ride more than six times the distance as consumer riders, so enabling these delivery riders to adopt smart sustainable electric transportation can have an accelerated impact on a city.”

The pilot entails C&C leasing Gogoro 2 Series Smartscooters to foodpanda riders. Riders can swap out depleted batteries for new ones in seconds at battery swapping stations, eliminating charging downtime and the need for parking.

“A sustainable future is one where we are all mindful of our actions and to achieve that, our individual efforts matter – starting from today,” says Lawrence Wen, CEO at foodpanda Singapore.

“We have been working to make eco-friendlier vehicle options an affordable and practical choice for our riders, and are proud to report that to-date, over 50% of our riders conduct deliveries on greener transportation such as e-bikes and bicycles.”

“We’re excited to explore more ways for our riders to be sustainable with this partnership with C&C and Gogoro, and to continue to set the standard for sustainable practices in the delivery industry as we move towards Singapore’s vision of having all vehicles be powered by cleaner energy by 2040.”