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Kenya Meets Renewable Energy Generation Target, Should Now Shift Focus To Accelerating EV Adoption To Soak Up Excess Electricity

January 15, 2020 admin africa, cars, clean power, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, geothermal kenya, grid, Kenya, kenya clean energy, kenya renewable energy generation, nairobi ev summit, nissan leaf, nopia, onshore wind farms, renewable energy generation, wind energy

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:01:01 +0000

Kenya’s installed generation capacity is sitting at over 2,700 MW, which now exceeds the current peak demand of around 1,900 MW. At night during the off-peak periods, this demand goes down even further, to about 1000 MW. So where can all this excess and very clean nighttime electricity go

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All Electric Taxi-Hailing Service Nopia Looks To Scale Up In Kenya

November 22, 2019 admin africa, cars, clean transport, co2 emissions, dc fast charging, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, ev taxi-hailing service, evs in kenya., Japan, Kenya, Nissan, nissan leaf, nopia, United Kingdom

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:48:33 +0000

Nopia Ride, a taxi-hailing service that only uses electric cars is scaling up operations in Kenya. Nopia ran a pilot phase from August 2018 to March 2019. Three used Nissan Leafs imported from Japan and the United Kingdom were used in the pilot program. The pilot phase allowed the company to test its business case and showcase the business plan to potential investors with real trip data to validate its case