Kenya's First Electric Motorcycle Pilots Launched for Kenya Power & Lighting Company and Kisumu City

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The Launch of Kenya's Electric Mobility Pilot during the Fourth UN Environmental Assembly. From Left to right: Huang Jiangsong, Vice General Manager, Shenzhen Shenling Car Company Limited (TAILG), Peter Anyang' Nyong'o - Governor of Kisumu County, Jochen Flasbarth - State Secretary at German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and Rob de Jong, Head Air Quality and Mobility at UN Environment.

Kenya's first electric mobility pilots, launched during the Fourth UN Environmental Assembly, has set the ball rolling for Africa's shift to electric mobility. Developed together with the Energy Regulatory Commission, the two pilots in the City of Kisumu and with Kenya Power & Lighting Company Limited will see the deployment of a total of 50 electric motorcycles in the country. These motorcycles are donated by TAILG, a Chinese company that recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UN Environment to support UN Environment's electric mobility work. It will be the first ever comprehensive electric motorcycle pilot in East Africa serving to raise awareness for electric mobility and to provide crucial data to stakeholders for policy formulation.

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