Company: GGR
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001886190-25-000017
Chunk: 44

Company: Gogoro Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 44
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 subject to certain environmental laws and regulations, including laws related to the use, handling, storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes as well as electronic wastes and hardware, whether hazardous or not. These laws may require us or others in our value chain to obtain permits and comply with procedures that impose various restrictions and obligations that may have material effects on our operations. If key permits and approvals cannot be obtained on acceptable terms, or if other operational requirements cannot be met in a manner satisfactory for our operations or on a timeline that meets our commercial obligations, it may adversely impact our business.

Environmental, health and safety laws and regulations can be complex and may be subject to change, such as through new requirements enacted at the supranational, national, sub-national and/or local level or new or modified regulations that may be implemented under existing law. The nature and extent of any changes in these laws, rules, regulations and permits may be unpredictable and may have material effects on our business. Future legislation and regulations or changes in existing legislation and regulations, or interpretations thereof, including those relating to hardware manufacturing, electronic waste or batteries, could cause additional expenditures, restrictions and delays in connection with our operations as well as other future projects, the extent of which cannot be predicted.

Although we are not regulated as a utility company, changes in regulations may subject us to regulation as a utility or otherwise require us to comply with utility-style regulations and limitations.

Although we generally are not regulated as a utility, government laws and regulations concerning electricity heavily influence the market for our products and services. These statutes and regulations often relate to electricity pricing, net metering, incentives, taxation, and the rules surrounding the interconnection of customer-owned electricity generation for specific technologies. Changes, or in some cases a lack of change, in any of the laws, regulations, ordinances locally or in foreign markets or other rules that apply to customer installations and new technology could make it more costly for our vendors to install and operate our battery swapping stations on particular sites, and in turn could negatively affect our ability to deliver cost-savings to customers for the use of our products. If we become subject to the same regulatory authorities as utilities or if new regulatory bodies are established to oversee our business, the marketability of our products could be impacted, and our operating costs could materially increase. In addition, regulatory uncertainty could discourage investment in the industry, which would reduce the capital available to us.

We may be subject to various governmental export control and trade sanctions and regulations that could impair our ability to compete in international markets or subject