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What A Beautiful Sight: Over 500 EVs at Africa’s Largest Ever EV Parade In Nairobi, Kenya

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There were not that many EVs in Kenya at the time. Two years later in 2018, I was now able to hail an electric car via a ride-hailing service that had just […] I remember spotting one of an early adopter’s EV at Sarit Centre in Westlands, Nairobi, in 2016. It was a grey Nissan Leaf.

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STIMA, Mogo, & Bolt Form Partnership To Spread Electric Motorcycles In Kenya

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The motorcycle sector is now the biggest vehicle segment in Kenya. times the number of motorcycles registered in 2018! The number of motorcycles registered in 2021 was more than 1.5 This is impressive growth over the past 6 years.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4 Investment in new wind, solar, and other non-large hydro renewables projects in the country fell to $86 billion in 2018 from $122 billion in 2017.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In Kenya, for example, mobile transactions last year were up by about 20 percent over 2020, according to Capacity. In 2018 she launched the fintech company and is currently its only employee. She got an opportunity to do so in 2012, when she took the job of CTO in IBM’s Central, East, and West Africa regional office, in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Volkswagen founds mobility services company in Rwanda; to begin local assembly of Polo and Passat

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Production will start with several hundred vehicles in mid-2018, and capacity will gradually be expanded to up to 5,000 vehicles per year. Vehicle assembly began in Nigeria in 2015, and in Kenya in December 2016. It is planned to initially build the Volkswagen Polo and Passat models.

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Volkswagen & Siemens launch joint electric mobility pilot project in Rwanda

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The Moving Rwanda Initiative was established as the result of Volkswagen’s initial investment in Rwanda, which saw the launch of Africa’s first Integrated Mobility Solutions business in June 2018. Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda offers mobility solutions services such as ride-hailing and corporate car sharing.

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