Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

Chromatin introduced the new hybrids at a grain sorghum workshop it hosted in Kampala, Uganda. David Kisa, CEO of Kapchorwa Commercial Farmers Association (KACOFA), who operates a 2,400 acre farm in Uganda said that he had trialed Chromatin’s sorghum hybrids on the farm and produced 2.45MT per acre. Chromatin, Inc.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

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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CleanTechnica EVs

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 have adopted several models, including battery leasing and swapping services, hoping to entice boda-boda operators with the lower opex costs of electric motorcycles.

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Innovation News Network

JULY 18, 2022

Ionic Rare Earths Limited (IonicRE) is currently focused on developing its flagship Makuutu Rare Earths Project in Uganda, which has significant rare earths potential. Tim Harrison, Managing Director and CEO of Ionic Rare Earths Limited, discusses the Makuutu Rare Earth Project and its magnet rare earths potential.

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Electrek

AUGUST 9, 2023

The last time we heard from African electric motorcycle startup Spiro, the company was planning to roll out 140,000 e-motos in Uganda. Now Spiro is working to put even more bikes and battery swap stations on the road thanks to new funding.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2022

Rethink Robotics ] Members of Uganda Flying Labs share how their drone operations and data training programs help farmers improve their crop yield and care for their livestock. Uganda Flying Labs ] A conversation between two leaders in the robot space: Daniela Rus and Marc Raibert. CAM USC Viterbi ] Rethink Robotics: still doing stuff.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

The projects include a recycling center to reduce plastic waste at Ankole Institute, in southwestern Uganda. The center was built by students from Kyambogo University of Kampala, Uganda.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2013

After 50 days and 10,000 gruelling miles, £1million had been collected to support a sustainable water and sanitation programme in Uganda. A year ago, the one millionth UK-built Land Rover Discovery set out on the most ambitious fundraising project the all-terrain vehicle manufacturer had ever undertaken.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The $163 million multi-year deal creates a new franchise venture called OX East Africa, and includes delivery of a fleet of OX Delivers electric trucks, along with a multi-year subscription to the companys tech platform and vehicle maintenance services as the company enhances its presence in Rwanda and expands into Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Even countries that have seen recent economic progress have the problem—the urban to rural breakdown is 71 to 32 percent in Uganda and 92 to 24 percent in Togo.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2023

This program is designed to teach Python and Scratch to more than 200 preuniversity students in Uganda. The workshops introduce students to fields such as computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, and robotics as well as related degree programs offered at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. Raspberry Pi coding workshop.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2021

More trials were conducted in Uganda in 2016 in collaboration with the Queen Elizabeth National Park ’s Wildlife Conservation Society and in China in 2017 and 2019 with the World Wildlife Foundation. Fang earned her Ph.D. in computer science in 2016 and joined Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow. But she continued to work with Tambe on PAWS.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Volunteers from the IEEE Uganda Section and local engineering students are designing and fabricating a stationary bicycle to act as a generator, providing power to families living in underserved communities.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 20, 2024

Uganda’s Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija, recently delivered the country’s 2024/2025 national budget. There were some very interesting insights in there that give us a good look into Uganda’s electricity generation landscape as well as the current state and plans to grow the electric mobility ecosystem.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2023

The motorcycle sector in Africa is one of the largest vehicle segments on the continent. There are over 27 million ICE motorbikes registered across Africa, with around 80% of them used in the motorcycle taxi industry.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 23, 2023

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. Some further background can be found here.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

Alejandro Llanos, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru; Shuaib Lwasa, Makerere University, Uganda; James Ford, McGill University, Canada; Lea Berrang Ford, McGill University, Canada. Murray Simpson, the CARIBSAVE Partnership, Barbados; Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada. Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change.

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Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

In FY2024, Hero MotoCorp revamped distribution setup, network expansion, and sales promotion activities in its key African markets of Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda. The Access is the company’s best-selling export model along with the Gixxer motorcycle.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

The society also has increased membership in Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. Since the initiative was launched, the society established its first African chapter, in South Africa , followed by one in Angola. A chapter in Ghana is in the process of forming.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Countries like Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Egypt all have plans in place to increase EV production and usage. Many countries in Southeast Asia like Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand are taking steps to promote sales of EVs. In Africa , South Africa is leading the way on the continent as far as EV adoption, although it remains low.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The idea for Starlink’s donation option came about earlier this week when Starlink customer Mr. Ham Serunjogi tweeted that he was interested in donating Starlink access to schools and hospitals in Uganda. Mr. Serunjogi’s tweet caught Elon Musk’s interest.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois currently is a cobalt company with nickel and copper exposure, with mining assets in Idaho, Uganda, and Australia. SMP Refinery has annual refined production capacity of 25,000 metric tonnes of nickel and 2,000 metric tonnes of cobalt and is currently on care and maintenance.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2021

.” The countries listed are considered “covered” as a part of the U.S. Conflict Minerals Disclosure Rules. These countries include: Burundi. The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tesla’s primary goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

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