India is the world’s largest two-wheeler market, accounting for nearly 40% of global motorcycle sales. Electrifying this critical sector presents a massive opportunity to cut carbon emissions and deliver cleaner urban mobility. The Indian electric two-wheeler (2W) market is projected to exceed $50 billion within the decade Bangalore-based Ultraviolette has … [continued]
This has probably got to be the largest rollout of electric motorcycles in Africa in a single day! And Spiro followed this up by deploying another 300 bikes the following day and another 150 bikes a few days later. They will now ramp up to deploy at least 175 to … [continued]
The Terra Prime V2 electric motorcycle isn’t trying to be flashy, and it’s not overloaded with smart features you’ll never use or made to look like something out of a sci-fi movie. Instead, it’s a practical, purpose-built e-moto that aims to be just as comfortable handling your morning commute as … [continued]
Last year, the Clicks Group and United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD) partnered with Everlectric and Investec Sustainable Solutions to introduce South Africa’s first fleet of zero-emission, pharma-compliant electric vehicles (EVs) with solar-powered refrigeration. This partnership uses Maxus eDeliver 3 electric panel vans that were chosen because of their purpose-built light commercial … [continued]
Good things are happening in Africa, especially in the electric vehicle sector. We are starting to see significant traction in a number of countries on the African continent. In Ethiopia, a total ban on the import of fully built internal combustion engine (ICE) cars has resulted in an incredible increase … [continued]
Several Kenya-based firms have done a magnificent job of building the country’s electric motorcycle industry from scratch starting about 7 years ago. After going through the various stages of early pilots, further pilots, multiple iterations, and pivots, a number of them found the sweet spot and then graduated into early … [continued]
The Afrobeats music genre has grown tremendously over the past two decades to become a global mainstream phenomenon. For example, I was pleasantly surprised a couple of years ago when we had dinner at a restaurant in Washington, DC, and they played quite a lot of Afrobeats. It was pretty … [continued]
The transition to electric in Africa’s motorcycle taxi industry is shaping up nicely now. Several companies operating in key markets are scaling up their operations. One of the leading players in this industry is Ampersand. Ampersand currently has operations in Rwanda and Kenya. Ampersand powers over 5,700 electric motorcycles that … [continued]
Spiro operates the largest battery swapping infrastructure network for electric motorcycles in Africa, and now has a presence in 8 countries. Motorcycles are a really big deal in a lot of African countries, with most of them deployed as taxis. Close to 30 million motorcycles on the continent are used … [continued]
Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress initiated the biggest reshoring initiative in US history. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) stimulated billions upon billions of dollars of battery production factories and other cleantech production facilities in the US. It also encouraged EV production in the US via stipulations on consumer EV … [continued]
