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Kenya’s Largest Bank To Provide 100% Financing For Riders To Acquire 100,000 Electric Motorcycles!

CleanTechnica EVs

The Group is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. The KCB Group is the largest financial services organization in East Africa in terms of asset size.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Cars That Think

We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy. Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict.

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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Green Car Congress

However, it also shows that where countries have implemented measures to govern the import of used vehicles—notably age and emissions standards —these give them access to high-quality used vehicles, including hybrid and electric cars, at affordable prices. Poor quality used vehicles also lead to more road accidents.

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Flat-pack OX electric truck gets a $163 million order, expands in Africa

Baua Electric

Electric truck startup OX Delivers scored a $163 million multi-year deal to bring its tough, capable, and low-cost electric trucks-as-a-service vehicles to East Africa in a bid to bring e-mobility to the global south. OX Delivers calls its truck the first purpose-built electric vehicle for the Global South. Good for them.

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Tesla releases Conflict Mineral report, extending history of humane mining practices

Teslarati

The company states that any of its products, whether be its electric vehicles or its energy storage products, could contain some portion of these “conflict minerals.” These countries include: Burundi. .” Tesla states that its conflict minerals are: Columbite-tantalite (Tantalum). Cassiterite (Tin).

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