The Significance Of The US-Kenya Climate & Clean Energy Industrial Partnership
The US and Kenya level up their strategic relationship with a slate of new clean energy programs for sustainability and national security.
BasiGo
BasiGo’s Electric Buses Are Starting To Have A Big Impact on Kenya’s Bus Sector
BasiGo, one of Africa’s leading electric bus solution providers, has just secured $5 million in debt funding from British International Investment (BII). BII is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor. The funding comes from BII’s Climate Innovation Facility, a catalytic program for accelerating climate innovation in emerging markets. … [continued]
Electric Mobility Projects In Kenya Start to Show Real Potential For Significant Petrol & Diesel…
A lot of projects go ahead on the basis of some positive business cases, underpinned by the quest to solve real problems for the targeted customer segments. While these business cases help shape the path to the right solutions, it’s always great to see the real results on the ground … [continued]
BasiGo Awarded $1.5 Million Grant From USAID To Scale Up Clean Public Transport In Rwanda
BasiGo, an e-mobility company that is working on bringing the future of clean, electric public transport to sub-Saharan Africa, recently announced that its first two electric buses designated for Rwanda, BasiGo’s second market in East Africa, have arrived and are now their way to Kigali, Rwanda. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, … [continued]
Electric Buses in Kenya Create Greater Environmental Impact
While South American and Chinese cities have been generating a great deal of attention for the electrification of their public transport, East Africa is determined to not fall behind. The majority of electric buses are still in China, but the ones with the biggest impact may be those deployed in … [continued]
BasiGo Wins Best Mobility & Logistics Award At Global Startup Awards Africa
Kenyan startup BasiGo’s innovative Pay-As-You-Drive model, which lowers the barriers to entry for operators to get brand new electric buses, has helped unlock a pathway to accelerating the adoption of electric buses in Africa. Here is a summary of BasiGo’s Pay-As-You-Drive program: A single daily subscription fee charged per km … [continued]
BasiGo Partners With AC Mobility (Tap&Go) To Bring Electric Buses To Rwanda!
Nairobi-based electric bus pioneer BasiGo has made a second entry into the African market with the launch of BasiGo Rwanda Ltd., a new entity focused on electrifying the public transport system in Rwanda. BasiGo has partnered with AC Mobility, Rwanda’s provider of automated fare collection systems for public transport. It’s really … [continued]
EvChaja & BasiGo Collaborate With Kenya Airways To Facilitate An Electric Bus Ride For The…
Kenya Airways (KQ) is participating in the second edition of the Sustainable Flight Challenge (TSFC), an initiative of SkyTeam. The initiative is a friendly competition between SkyTeam member airlines. A Kenyan Airways Boeing 787-800 (B787-8) Dreamliner took off from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Amsterdam Schiphol yesterday morning, and … [continued]
The First EV Charging Station Connected To Kenya’s New E-Mobility Tariff Has Been Launched
Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) recently approved new electricity tariffs effective April 1st. As part of this latest tariff review, EPRA introduced a special tariff regime for the electric mobility sector. The new e-mobility tariff has been set at 16 Kenyan shillings for energy consumption up to 15,000 … [continued]
It’s Now Fairly Easy To Spot Electric Buses On The Streets Of Nairobi
The transition to electric mobility is gaining momentum around the world. We regularly get updates on sales charts from several markets around the world right here on CleanTechnica. Most of the time, we get good news of record market share for electric vehicles in the new vehicle sales charts in … [continued]
