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Gachaco To Open Battery Swapping To Individuals. Here's Why It Matters

Remember Gachaco? It's the swappable battery service formed in Japan by Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha, and Japanese power company Eneos. Back in 2022, the five companies came together to work on a single project that could potentially benefit them all, as well as those interested in the future of electrified personal transportation in Japan.

While the company has been busy in the months since, its main tasks so far have been doing trial runs and setting up a battery swapping system aimed at business clients, not individual riders. That is, until now.

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