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Bolt Partners With M-KOPA To Launch Electric Motorcycle Fleet In Kenya — Will Deploy 5,000 Electric Motorcycles Within 3 Years

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Bolt, a leading on-demand mobility company in Africa, in collaboration with M-KOPA, a leading African fintech platform, today announced the launch of its electric bike fleet in Kenya. Through this partnership, new and existing drivers will have the opportunity to lease ROAM and Ampersand electric motorbikes at a discounted price.

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Kenya’s President Drives Himself From State House In Electric Car To Officially Open Africa Climate Summit

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All the vehicles in President William Ruto’s motorcade for the summit were electric vehicles. The motorcade had electric motorcycles and electric cars.

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Persistent Expands Its Electric Mobility Venture Building To West Africa, Partners With SolarTaxi

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Ghanaian company SolarTaxi, which was started by Jorge Appiah in 2018, has been making good progress in the electric mobility sector. SolarTaxi’s vision is to become the leading e-mobility product and services company in West Africa. SolarTaxi […].

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Plans Underway For Rwanda To Get 200 Electric Buses!

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A lot of exciting things are happening in the electric mobility space in Rwanda. First there is Ampersand, one of the pioneers and leaders of the electric motorcycle sector in Africa. Ampersand has recently celebrated the deployment of its 1,000th electric motorcycle. There is also Rwanda Electric Motors.

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I Drove The Wuling Bingo And The NETA V In Nairobi, Kenya — The Experience Was Quite Good!

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There has been a lot of activity and therefore a lot of attention given to the nascent electric motorcycle and electric bus sectors in Kenya. But there is also quite some activity in the electric car space in Kenya. Several official dealerships are now bringing in brand new models of.

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Africa’s EV Road Back to Eden

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Six electric tricycles were recently delivered to health centres […] The African continent is bearing the brunt of climate change induced disasters. We see it on the news most nights. Here are some of the attempts to decarbonise the transport sector in these emerging economies as chronicled by Afrik21.

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Electric vehicles trends in India

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Electric vehicles trends in India. Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India’s policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced CO2 emissions. Fuel prices boosted sales of electric two-wheelers.

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