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APRIL 22, 2024

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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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Spiro has announced a historic deal to introduce more than one million electric motorcycles and clean energy infrastructure in Kenya. The plan includes battery charging and swapping stations.

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MARCH 26, 2024

A lot more electric motorcycles have been unleashed onto the streets of Nairobi. The post There Are Now Visibly More Electric Motorcycles In Nairobi, Kenya appeared first on CleanTechnica. These days you do not even need to go around looking for them. They are literally everywhere you go, which is extremely exciting.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Several firms that are active in Kenya’s nascent electric motorcycle sector are starting to ramp up their operations. This has resulted in an increased number of electric motorcycles on the roads in Kenya, especially in the capital, Nairobi.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Motorcycles sales in Kenya increased yet again in 2020, breaking the trend where sharp declines in registration were observed across the other motor vehicle segments. growth in motor- and auto-cycles was recorded last year, according to the latest Economic Survey from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).

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JUNE 17, 2024

When it comes to the conversation about motorcycles in Africa, most of the talk is centered around the motorcycle taxi industry. That’s because there are tens of millions of motorcycles operating in the taxi industry across multiple countries. All of these are still essentially internal combustion engine motorcycles.

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MAY 10, 2022

Motorcycle sales in Kenya were up 15.6% growth in the lockdown-affected 2020, according to the latest Economic Survey from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). Motorcycle registrations jumped from 246,705 units in 2020 to 285,203 units in 2021. This follows an impressive 17.4%

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JUNE 22, 2022

Kenya’s motorcycle industry is booming, buoyed by the ever growing motorcycle taxi (Boda Boda) industry. There are over 2 million motorcycles registered in Kenya.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The motorcycle sector is now the biggest vehicle segment in Kenya. The number of motorcycles registered in 2021 was more than 1.5 times the number of motorcycles registered in 2018! Motorcycle taxi riders, the largest user segment of motorcycles in the country, are constantly battling skyrocketing […].

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Accelerating the transition to electric motorcycles in Kenya could unlock efficiencies across the energy system, cut down fossil fuel imports, and provide additional revenues for Kenya’s utility company. I have been covering developments in Kenya’s electric vehicle segment for over 7 years now.

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APRIL 1, 2024

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

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

If you have ever been to Mombasa, Kenya, and other towns in the coastal regions, such as Malindi, Watamu, Kilifi, and Diani, you may have noticed that 3-wheelers are an integral part of the transport ecosystem in the coastal region. Currently, Mombasa on its own has close to 15,000 passenger.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Spiro has the largest fleet of electric motorcycles on the roads in Africa. Spiro now has over 13,000 electric motorbikes and 40,000 swappable batteries in operation across Benin, Togo, Rwanda, and Kenya. Spiro says, to date, riders have collectively driven almost quarter of a billion kilometers.

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JULY 1, 2024

continued] The post Dynamics of Electric Mobility Transition in Kenya appeared first on CleanTechnica. He unplugs the wire that charges his shiny new electric bike, presses a tiny switch bringing the quiet motor to life, and rides off to deliver happiness in the form of food. George is part of.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The electric 2-wheeler market in Kenya has been getting a lot of attention. 285,203 ICE motorcycles were registered in Kenya in 2021, so […] There are over 15 startups in the sector that are at different stages in their development. After several years of pilot programs, a lot of them are now ramping up their operations.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The electric motorcycle industry in East Africa has been developing nicely over the past 5 years. continued] The post Powerhive Announces Strategic Partnership with Mobius Motors to Boost Local Assembly Capabilities in Kenya appeared first on CleanTechnica. Several startups have been.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

The Kenyan electric motorcycle company Ecobodaa will soon launch its next generation electric motorcycle, the Umeme 3000. Ecobodaa started operations in 2020 after founder Kimosop Chepkoit, who had earlier used his savings to start an ICE motorcycle leasing firm in Nairobi, became fascinated with electric motorcycles.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

After the successful completion of a pilot program in Kenya, Opibus and Uber have announced a strategic partnership to scale the use of electric motorcycles in Africa.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

There has been a lot of attention on electrifying the motorcycle industry on the African continent. That is because the motorcycle sector in Africa is one of the largest vehicle segments on the continent.

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JANUARY 31, 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 8,9 million customers.

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JULY 20, 2022

Roam has today announced the launch of its next-generation electric motorcycle, the Roam Air. Several years of research and months of development were dedicated to building the optimal electric motorcycle for Africa. Motorcycles are a really big deal in Kenya and across the rest […].

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JULY 25, 2023

One of the key focus areas in several African countries has been on the electric motorcycle sector. With millions of internal combustion engine motorcycles already on the road on the […]

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Kenya Power and Lighting Company PLC (Kenya Power) owns and operates most of the electricity transmission and distribution system in the country, and sells electricity to over 8.5 million accounts in Kenya.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

continued] The post Electric Mobility Projects In Kenya Start to Show Real Potential For Significant Petrol & Diesel Abatement appeared first on CleanTechnica. A lot of projects go ahead on the basis of some positive business cases, underpinned by the quest to solve.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Ampersand will purchase BYD’s high-tech battery cells to build around 40,000 electric motorcycles by the end of 2026, with the long-term goal of electrifying a large portion of Africa’s 30 million commercial motorcycles. In an exciting development toward electricity in one of the most prominent sectors in the African transport.

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JULY 7, 2023

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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MARCH 17, 2023

Kenya recently signed some deals with firms from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to supply diesel, petrol, and jet fuel on credit for the next 6 months to ease mounting pressure on the demand for foreign currency as well as to try to stem the Kenya shillings slide vs. the US dollar […]

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JUNE 26, 2023

Motorcycle taxis, popularly known as boda bodas, are a vital pillar of the transport ecosystem in Kenya. There are millions of boda bodas in Kenya as well as in the rest of the East African region, and there are millions more in West and Central Africa. In Kenya, President William Ruto attended the launch of […]

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

continued] The post Roam Air Electric Motorcycle Embarks On Historic 6,000-KM Solar-Powered Trip From Nairobi To South Africa! The Smarter Mobility Africa Summit is an annual gathering that inspires and connects visionary mobility solution providers, thought leaders, key buyers, and decision-makers. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

continued] The post Ampersand & CrossBoundary Energy Look To Supercharge Kenya’s E-Mobility Transition With Solar Charging & E-Motorcycle Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica. Uptake was simply influenced by savings customers.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A number of startups focused on electrifying the motorcycle and motorcycle taxi (boda-boda) market have now entered the boda-boda space in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. They say electric motorcycles can be […].

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MARCH 25, 2021

Kiri EV is an electric vehicle startup based in Nairobi, Kenya. It was founded by Christopher Mukiri Maara. The name Kiri was inspired by his middle name, Mukiri, which means “The Quiet One” — which is pretty cool since electric vehicles are quite silent. “We We are working to prove that electric vehicles will play a […].

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Africa’s motorcycle sector is ripe for electrification. 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.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

There are a lot of exciting projects taking shape in Kenya’s electric mobility and clean cooking sectors. On the electric mobility side of things, the electric motorcycle sector is developing quite nicely and has been one of the key focus areas for many startups, along with the electric bus sector.

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MARCH 9, 2023

This new facility will allow for an expanded production and have an annual capacity of 50,000 motorcycles while staying a carbon-neutral assembly, […]

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Ampersand, one of the pioneers in the African electric motorcycle sector, is ramping up its operations. Ampersand was founded in 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda, and quickly started work on motorbike and battery prototypes which were put on road to get real data in the actual conditions that the motorcycles would be used by customers in […].

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