Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A first-of-its-kind offering, Bboxx Protect, offers extensive protection to electric motorbike users and significant savings of over 40%. The electric motorcycle sector in East Africa is starting to flourish. Kenya is the largest market ... [continued]
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From Electric Motorcycles On Uber & Bolt To Neta V Electric Taxis, Nairobi’s EV Scene Is Starting To Flourish
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! With over 2 million internal combustion engine motorcycles in Kenya, the motorcycle sector presents a large addressable market for companies interested in electrification. Motorcycles are mainly used as public transport vehicles in Kenya. These ... [continued]
Zimbabwe Reduces Import Duty On Electric Vehicles From 40% to 25% Starting January 1, 2025
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Yesterday, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister, Professor Mhtuli Ncube, presented the 2025 National Budget under the theme “Building Resilience for Sustained Economic Transformation.” There were a lot of mixed reactions to most of the stuff announced ... [continued]
CHARGE Officially Opens 1st Off-Grid, Green EV Charging Station In South Africa
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! At about this time last year, we wrote about Zero Carbon Charge’s plans to roll out electric vehicle charging stations charged 100% by renewable energy. At that time, they had just announced the start ... [continued]
Roam & ENERGICA Partner To Expand Electric Motorcycle Charging Network With 10 New Solar-Powered Hubs
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Accelerating the transition to electric motorcycles in Kenya could unlock efficiencies across the energy system, cut down fossil fuel imports, and provide additional revenues for Kenya’s utility company. I have been covering developments in ... [continued]
After A Long Wait, Zimbabwe’s Utility-Scale Solar PV Sector Is Starting To Grow
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Zimbabwe has an installed electricity generation capacity of close to 3,000 MW, but there is a huge problem. The Zimbabwe Power Company’s (ZPC) main thermal plants are very old and keep breaking down. There ... [continued]
Eramet Grande Côte Mine In Senegal Is Getting 20 MW Of Solar & 11 MWh Of Battery Storage
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The Eramet Grande Côte Mine 20 MWp solar and 11 MWh battery project will provide clean energy to meet 20% of the mine’s energy needs and reduce carbon emissions by 25,000 tonnes annually. The ... [continued]
Inchcape & BYD Partner In New Distribution Agreement For Ethiopia!
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In an unprecedented move some months ago, Ethiopia became effectively the first country in the world to ban the import of internal combustion engine vehicles. That ban was not some futuristic target for 2030 ... [continued]
MojaEV Kenya Launches 100 NETA V Electric Cars for Nairobi Taxi Market
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! MojaEV aims to introduce a total of 500 NETA V electric cars by mid-2025 Although the Kenyan vehicle market is quite small, there are quite a number of exciting developments when it comes to ... [continued]