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Nigeria: How Nigeria's Petrol Crisis Inspired Locally Produced Electric Bicycles #AfricaClimateHope
allAfrica, 22 June 2022
People need to move around. Whether it's going to school or buying the basics, we need to move from place to place, but how we do that moving has a profound impact on other species… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Zim Targeting Key Role in Global Electric Car Industry
The Herald, 18 June 2022
ZIMBABWE is poised to become a key player in the global transition to green energy, not only through lithium mining, but its beneficiation that can empower local communities and… Read more »
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South Africa: Electric Vehicles in South Africa - How to Avoid Making Them the Privilege of the Few
The Conversation Africa, 14 June 2022
In the early 1900s, automobiles took the streets of industrialised cities by storm, rapidly displacing horse-drawn vehicles. Fiercely contested at first, the internal combustion… Read more »
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Rwanda: Economically Vulnerable Women Turn to e-Motorbikes for Income
New Times, 14 June 2022
Over 2,000 female moto riders who are school dropouts, vulnerable single mothers, widows and are set to adopt electric motorcycles to generate income while 'greening' the transport… Read more »
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Africa: Solar-Powered Motorbikes - Climate-Friendly Tool to Fight Poaching
RFI, 6 June 2021
Tracking ivory poachers in Africa takes skill, courage and lots of climate-unfriendly fuel, right? Perhaps not for much longer -- a Swedish company has developed solar-powered… Read more »
How Nigeria-Made Electric Bikes Are Tackling #AfricaClimateCrisis
We are fast running out of time to slash carbon emissions and limit the worst effects of the climate crisis, and this means that moving away from fossil fuels is both a challenge and an opportunity.
Turning necessity into opportunity, Nigerian entrepreneur Olukokun Tolulope launched ThinkElectric Africa, an electric vehicle company, with a mission to accelerate Africa's transition to renewable energy and sustainable transport. He also runs Thinkbikes - a micromobility company that is manufacturing two and three-wheelers locally for last-mile transportation of goods and people.
Researchers say electric vehicles need to be combined with a much greater effort to make cities bikeable and walkable to curb climate emissions.
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Bicycles are a popular way to get around in Chipata in the east of Zambia, but they didn't become popular because of residents' desire to save the environment but because bicycle ... Read more »
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Mozambique continues to feel the growing impact of the climate crisis, which is amplifying vulnerability, driving displacement, and making life harder for refugees, the internally ... Read more »
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Six in 10 people will be living in cities by 2030. This is concerning. Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet cities can also do a lot to ... Read more »
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Kenya Power says innovation plans are in top gear to have the country move into the all-electric vehicle space. The government is critically looking into the matt Read more »
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Across the world, more and more people are opting for electric vehicles and the industry is undeniably on the rise. However, as electric cars grow in popularity, concerns over ... Read more »
