CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Kenya Power Lighting Company PLC (Kenya Power) owns and operates most of the electricity transmission and distribution system in Kenya. Kenya Power sells electricity to over 8.9 During the year ended 30th June 2022, Kenya Power recorded a 6.6% million customers.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Kenya Power Lighting Company PLC (Kenya Power) owns and operates most of the electricity transmission and distribution system in Kenya. Kenya Power sells electricity to over 9 million customers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 19, 2022

Opibus, a Swedish-Kenyan technology company that develops, designs, and manufactures electric vehicles tailored for the African continent, has just introduced the first all-electric bus in Kenya. Opibus designed and developed the electric bus in Kenya.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After a very successful 6-month pilot program, BasiGo, an e-mobility company bringing the future of clean, electric public transport to sub-Saharan Africa, is now moving swiftly to the commercial operations phase.

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JUNE 17, 2014

The Sunbird-1 oil is the historic first-ever oil discovery offshore Kenya. We believe that this is a play- opening discovery in Kenya’s Lamu Basin. Because of the Sunbird discovery we expect to see a significant increase in industry interest offshore Kenya. —Barry Rushworth, Pancontinental’s CEO. Location map.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Volkswagen also this week inaugurated a vehicle production facility in Kenya. At the inauguration, Diess underlined Kenya’s key role within the Volkswagen brand’s Africa strategy: “ After over 60 years of Volkswagen vehicle production in South and North Africa, I am delighted to now have a further site in Kenya. 1 or the e-Golf.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 28, 2023

Kenya Power Lighting Company PLC (Kenya Power) recently submitted an application for a tariff review to Kenya’s energy regulator EPRA. One thing that stood out in Kenya Power’s initial application for me was a proposed special tariff for electric mobility.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Kenya-based electric mobility company ROAM has successfully completed a Series A funding round totaling $24 million in equity and debt to expand local production and further electrify mobility across Africa.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The partnership will introduce electric tuk-tuks to JUMIA’s delivery fleet in Kenya. The two companies have successfully completed the pilot project and are set to scale the fleet within Kenya in the first phase, and eventually […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

So far, the company has financed the purchase of over 100 electric assets in Kenya. Watu says it has been at the forefront of asset financing for two- and three-wheeler vehicles. Watu’s e-motorbike financing model enables customers to acquire an electric motorcycle for as little as Ksh 450 daily (US$3 per day).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Kenyan electric motorcycle company Ecobodaa will soon launch its next generation electric motorcycle, the Umeme 3000. Umeme is Swahili for electricity.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 25, 2023

As the transition to electric mobility accelerates around the world, several companies are working hard to ensure that the African continent is not left behind. One of the key focus areas in several African countries has been on the electric motorcycle sector.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2018

The Volkswagen brand has founded “Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda”, a company based in Rwanda. Overall, Volkswagen and its partner companies will create up to 1,000 jobs in Rwanda. Vehicle assembly began in Nigeria in 2015, and in Kenya in December 2016. The financial engagement amounts to approx. US$20 million (approx. €16

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Electrek

JULY 25, 2023

A mere few months after announcing a move to a new state-of-the-art headquarters in Nairobi, electric mobility company ROAM inaugurated the new space in a ceremony attended by the president of Kenya, William Ruto. As operations officially kick off, ROAM now occupies the largest electric motorcycle assembly plant in East Africa.

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Electrek

AUGUST 23, 2021

Welcome one and all back to the Electric Vehicle Spotlight (EVS) , where we at Electrek shine a light on specific companies bringing exciting new innovations and strategies to the world of electrified transport. Our latest EVS is on Opibus, a company headquartered in Kenya that was born out of a research project in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

New geothermal power came on line in Kenya, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as Oregon, Nevada and Utah in the United States. New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW. Vincent and the Grenadines, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, the United States, and Yemen.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In Kenya, for example, mobile transactions last year were up by about 20 percent over 2020, according to Capacity. Johnson held a number of technical leadership positions in IBM offices around the world during her more than 25 years with the company. In 2018 she launched the fintech company and is currently its only employee.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

To make sure the idea of the aCar becomes more than just an idea and actually makes it to series production, Sascha Koberstaedt and Martin Šoltés have founded the company “Evum Motors GmbH”. The team was working among other things on optimizing weight, on electrical systems and software, acoustics and ergonomic seating and visibility.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

The facility aims to have a production capacity of 2,000 electric three-wheelers a month, and to generate over 10,000 job opportunities, the company said in a media release. The company pioneers the development and manufacturing of advanced modular battery technology suitable for various vehicle form factors.

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MARCH 3, 2017

The Volkswagen brand currently has three operations in the region: the company has been building cars in South Africa since 1951. Vehicle assembly began in Nigeria in 2015, with assembly in Kenya getting underway in December 2016. —Thomas Schäfer.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Based on continued high demand, the company began exporting the Figo to Bahrain and Kenya this month. The Figo ( earlier post ) helped Ford India increase sales for the first five months of 2011 by 71%, compared to the same period last year, with 51,420 wholesale units sold, including exports, from January to May 2011.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In July and September , 15 of the biggest AI companies signed on to the White House’s voluntary commitments to manage the risks posed by AI. What exactly is transparency when it comes to these AI companies’ massive and powerful models? As the impact goes up, the transparency of these models and companies goes down,” he says.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 7, 2024

According to the report, the company is planning to launch this service soon in the metro cities of India, including Delhi and Mumbai. According to the report, the company is planning to launch this service soon in the metro cities of India, including Delhi and Mumbai.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The services are offered on the Move App, an innovative IT mobility solution which was developed by a local IT start-up company, Awesomity Lab. As such, Volkswagen has significantly expanded its engagement in Africa with the establishment of assembly facilities and marketing activities in Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Globalization allows companies to make their products almost anywhere in the world in order to keep costs down. However, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Kenya, actually face far less risk as they are not as heavily networked in the global economy and are relatively self-sufficient in food production.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2022

One startup trying to solve this problem is ARC Ride , in Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 2020, the company sells a variety of EVs, including e-bikes, scooters, motorcycles, and tuktuks. The company’s app lets EV owners locate the battery-swap stations. ARC Ride is also installing battery-swapping stations around the city.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

billion with 58 companies as part of the ongoing Vibrant Gujarat Summit. The company will invest approximately Rs 13,000 crore (USD 1.6 Some of the other major investments in green energy in the state include that of power company NTPC. The government of Gujarat has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth USD 86.07

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JULY 12, 2013

The company is also the thermodynamic efficiency of gasoline engines using a suite of technologies that include downsizing, turbocharging, direct injection, variable valve timing and cylinder deactivation. In 2012, the company realized energy-efficiency improvements of 2% from 2011, and carbon emissions intensity decreased 2%.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 22, 2012

Jaguar Land Rover has announced it is supporting the ground-breaking LifeStraw project, which will be the 50th Global carbon dioxide project the company has been involved in, in the last 5 years. The project will provide Kenya with clean and healthy drinking water.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 9, 2023

Roam, a Nairobi-based technology company that develops, designs, and deploys electric vehicles tailored for the African continent, has just unveiled its new production facility that is more than 10,000 square meters in size.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 14, 2023

Last year, the Kenyan e-mobility company BasiGo introduced the BYD K6 electric minibus, which has seating capacity of around […] A lot of intracity passenger bus services in various African cities are run by private players using small- to medium-sized buses ranging from 14- to 36-seat models.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the companies featured in the story, Gravitricity, completed its 250-kilowatt gravity battery demonstrator in Edinburgh last April and is now working on a full-scale deployment at a mine in the Czech Republic. Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen in 2022, or any other year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 26, 2023

Roam, a technology company that develops, designs, and deploys electric vehicles tailored for the African continent, launched the first Roam Hub this morning in Nairobi. The Roam Hub is a multi-purpose electric motorcycle charging station.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2022

Opibus, a Swedish-Kenyan technology company that develops, designs, and manufactures electric vehicles tailored for the African continent, has officially changed its name to Roam Motors. Founded in 2017, it became the first company to deliver locally produced electric motorcycles and electric […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 25, 2022

STIMA, a battery swapping technology company targeting the deployment of convenient battery swapping infrastructure for electric motorcycles at scale, estimates that there are about 20 million 2-wheelers on Africa’s roads today. Africa’s motorcycle sector is ripe for electrification.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I have also contacted some of the companies below for photos and additional comments. Afrik 21 is a rich source of news about African EV uptake and the progress of renewable energy in the many countries of Africa. Writer Benoit-Ivan Wansi has filed the articles below. I encourage you to subscribe to the Afrik 21 […]

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In October the committee led a G-STIC panel that provided an overview of several IEEE programs including IEEE Entrepreneurship , which provides mentoring and other resources to members who want to start their own company. The kibandas will use solar energy to power lights, refrigeration units, and security cameras.

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