Gojek chief transportation officer Raditya Wibowo said drivers would need to pay a daily rental fees for the electric motorcycles, which would be made by Indonesia's Gesit and Taiwan's Gogoro.

“We want to know the experience of drivers and consumers while using the motorbikes. Do drivers really save money from not buying gas? Is it comfortable? And so on,” he told reporters at a press conference.

While the start date of the trial has not been made public, Raditya said customers would soon be able to order rides or services from electric motorcycle drivers through the Gojek app.

Gojek committed in May to making its fleet entirely electric by 2030 to become a carbon-neutral company by the end of the decade, but the company did not provide details on the plan.

The decacorn launched its first electric vehicle (EV) test in July 2019, in which auto giant PT Astra International provided Honda PCX Electric motorbikes to some Gojek drivers in Jakarta.

Gojek’s competitor Grab, which has also announced net-zero emissions commitments, recently placed an order for 6,000 electric motorbikes from local manufacturer Viar Motor Indonesia. The Singapore-based company plans to distribute the vehicles to drivers throughout Indonesia by the end of this year.

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