SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that subsidy applications will open on Wednesday for purchases of electric motorcycles, including delivery bikes. The city government plans to subsidize the cost of 1,400 electric motorcycles for the first half of the year. This includes 900 ordinary motorcycles (64 percent), 360 delivery bikes [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it will distribute 7,000 electric motorcycles this year. This is the largest annual volume since the city government launched the distribution of electric motorcycles. This year’s distribution of electric models will be equivalent to 60 percent of the cumulative number of motorcycles [...]
GWANGJU, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A ward office in the southwestern city of Gwangju plans to install battery exchange facilities at telephone booths as a part of efforts to promote the distribution and use of electric motorcycles. Gwangju’s Nam Ward recently signed a business agreement with KT Linkus, a telephone booth operator, for the [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul announced on April 9 that it will begin subsidizing 500 environmentally friendly electric scooters per year with the goal of helping cover the cost of 4,700 of the vehicles total by 2025. A city representative said, “Electric two-wheelers don’t produce emissions damaging to the atmosphere because they lack [...]