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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

April 24, 2024 admin ampersand, clean transport, electric cars, electric motorcycles, Electric vehicles, Kenya, m-kopa, motorcycles + scooters, nairobi, roam

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:03:05 +0000

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 … [continued]

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M-KOPA Releases Its 2021 Impact Report

September 14, 2022 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, green economy, m-kopa, motorcycles + scooters

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:30:03 +0000

M-KOPA, a connected asset financing platform that offers underserved and unbanked customers across Africa access to life enhancing products and services, has just released its Impact Report for 2021. M-KOPA was established over 10 years ago, and pioneered and helped catalyze the growth of the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar market. By combining the power of digital micro-payments […]

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Roam & M-KOPA Sign Major Supply Agreement For Deployment Of Electric Motorcycles In Africa

August 17, 2022 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, m-kopa, motorcycles + scooters, opibus, roam

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:50:31 +0000

Roam, previously known as Opibus, has signed a major supply agreement with M-KOPA. M-KOPA is a fintech platform that provides credit and digital financial services to underbanked consumers in Africa. This is one of the first-ever large-scale supply agreements for electric motorcycles in Africa. The agreement will enable the credit sales of electric motorcycles, lowering […]

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Bridging The Gap For Battery Storage: How M-Kopa Labs Is Pulling Academic Research Into The Off-Grid Solar Industry

August 31, 2019 admin batteries, clean power, cleantech news, cleantechnica, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, m-kopa, m-kopa labs, Off The Grid, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:00:14 +0000

Knowledge transfer between academia and industry has the potential to affect a lot of change for a small off-grid solar company like M-KOPA Solar, a Kenya-based company and 2015 recipient of the Zayed Future Energy Prize. This is why Harini Hewa Dewage joined M-KOPA Labs, the research branch of M-KOPA, in November of 2016 as its battery technology specialist

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East African Countries Seek The Right Energy Mix: The Heavy Task Of Choosing One’s Path

August 22, 2019 admin clean power, d.light, east africa, geothermal energy, Kenya, kimani chege, m-kopa, Solar energy, tanzania, Uganda, wind energy

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:00:59 +0000

Kenya taps most of its energy needs from dams built between 1970 and early the ’80s along Tana River, the country’s biggest river. Several other dams built on other rivers bring the total installed hydropower capacity to 743 MW, which makes up more than half of the country’s power sources