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Volkswagen Group Africa Launches Multifunctional Facility In Africa With Electric Tractors

October 29, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, electric tractors, Electric vehicles, Farmers, farming, rwanda, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:15:26 +0000

In a lot of remote or rural areas across many regions on the African continent, the lack of access to mechanised resources such has tractors has been hindering agricultural productivity. Where there is access to traditional tractors, logistical issues of getting diesel to those places tend to add a premium … [continued]

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Kabisa Takes The Radar RD6 Electric Pickup On A 2,400km Round Trip From Rwanda To Kenya!

October 14, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, electric pickups, Electric vehicles, kabisa, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:25:49 +0000

Pickups are a big deal in a lot of African countries. In South Africa, for example, the Toyota Hilux has been the top selling vehicle for over a decade. It has done so well there that it has sold over 1 million units in South Africa since it was launched. … [continued]

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BasiGo Flags Off New Tata Ultra Electric Buses In Nairobi, Strengthens Sustainable Public Transport In Kenya

September 21, 2024 admin africa, basigo, byd, byd k6, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Kenya, mass transit / public transit, nairobi, rwanda, tata motors

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:34:49 +0000

Africa Electric Mobility Week is on in Nairobi, Kenya, this week from the 17th to the 22nd of September. It is a great time to check on some of the progress in key sectors such as electrification of public transport in Kenya. One of the main modes people use to … [continued]

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Kabisa & Societe Petroliere Partner to Expand EV Charging Infrastructure Across Rwanda

August 23, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:51:08 +0000

Rwanda is one of the few countries on the African continent that has very progressive policies for electric vehicles. These policies include some pretty cool incentives for EVs, such as the following. Fiscal Incentives: Electricity tariffs for charging stations to be capped at the industrial tariff. This means that charge … [continued]

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BYD & Ampersand To Collaborate On Electric Motorcycles In Africa

June 21, 2024 admin africa, ampersand, byd, clean transport, electric motorcycles, Electric vehicles, Kenya, motorcycles + scooters, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:21:10 +0000

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 … [continued]

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Toyota’s CFAO Group Brings BYD Dealership To Rwanda, Launches Atto 3, Dolphin, & Seagull Next

February 1, 2024 admin africa, byd, byd atto 3, clean transport, Electric vehicles, rwanda, toyota

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:20:34 +0000

CFAO Mobility in Rwanda has just launched East Africa’s first BYD car dealership in Kigali. The showroom is located in … [continued]

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BasiGo Awarded $1.5 Million Grant From USAID To Scale Up Clean Public Transport In Rwanda

November 15, 2023 admin africa, basigo, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, rwanda, USAID

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:02:12 +0000

BasiGo, an e-mobility company that is working on bringing the future of clean, electric public transport to sub-Saharan Africa, recently … [continued]

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Rwanda Electric Motors Will Celebrate 50 Million Kilometers Driven By Its Electric Motorcycle Fleet

February 11, 2023 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, motorcycles + scooters, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:51:41 +0000

Africa hosts an estimated 27 million motorbikes (motos), out of which 80% is estimated to be used for commercial taxi service. All these motos have the potential to soon be riding on electricity! The motorcycle sector has been getting attention when it comes to electrification due to the large addressable market. Electric motorcycles are also […]

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Ampersand Aims To Have 600,000 Electric Motorcycles Across East Africa By 2030

December 12, 2022 admin africa, ampersand, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Kenya, motorcycles + scooters, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:30:52 +0000

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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Infraco Africa & Equatorial Power To Roll Out Access To Clean Power & Agri-Processing In The DRC & Rwanda

October 20, 2022 admin africa, clean power, democratic republic of congo, green economy, grid, investment, microgrids, rwanda, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:00:06 +0000

Equatorial Power’s business model integrates the delivery of productive energy with water purification, agri-processing services, business incubation and e-mobility. This is in line with its vision to provide universal access to productive electricity and clean water in a truly holistic approach centered around the customer and enabled by the latest technology. Equatorial’s website says, “We […]

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