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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 0 Comments 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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Electric Mobility Projects In Kenya Start to Show Real Potential For Significant Petrol & Diesel Abatement

December 3, 2023 admin africa, ampersand, basigo, battery swapping, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Kenya, mass transit / public transit, motorcycles + scooters

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:19:07 +0000

A lot of projects go ahead on the basis of some positive business cases, underpinned by the quest to solve … [continued]

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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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Bboxx Partners With Ampersand To Provide Thousands Of Electric Motorcycle Taxis For Riders In Rwanda

October 15, 2022 admin africa, ampersand, clean transport, Electric vehicles, motorcycles + scooters, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:47:46 +0000

Some estimates put the number of motorcycles in use on the African continent at around 20 million. Estimates also say around 5 million of these are in East Africa. Persistent Energy’s Report, titled “A Dozen Markets and Counting, Opportunity For Two Wheel E-Mobility in SSA,” says that three times more motorcycles are imported annually into […]

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Ampersand Partners With TotalEnergies Kenya To Roll Out Electric Motorcycle Battery Swapping Stations In Kenya

June 22, 2022 admin africa, ampersand, battery swapping, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Kenya, motorcycles + scooters

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:45:51 +0000

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. Estimates put the total number of registered motorcycles in the wider East African region at well over 5 million motorcycles and these are essentially all internal combustion engine motorcycles. Sales of […]