As the Siemens Stiftung’s “Testing E-Mobility Business Models at WE Hub Victoria Limited in Kenya” field report says, “Mobility is the basis for the overall development of a society: it gives the population access to jobs, markets, social facilities, and health care. In addition, mobility itself creates jobs.”
Access to reliable and affordable transport services can be a major growth driver for many countries on the African continent, where currently the majority of the population lack access to reliable transport services. Increasing access to mass transit services, and in particular, cleaner transport services such as high capacity electric buses, will be a key enabler for economic development. The transport sector is also a major contributor of emissions, and therefore accelerating the adoption of electromobility is critical. High capacity electric buses will allow the majority of the commuting public to have access to electric mobility sooner rather than later, as private transport options such as car ownership are out of reach for a lot of people.
Roam (prev. Opibus), a Swedish-Kenyan technology company founded in 2017 that develops, designs and deploys electric vehicles tailored for the African continent, wants to catalyze the adoption of high capacity electric buses across Africa. Roam has just announced the launch of a new electric mass transit bus, the Roam Rapid. The Roam Rapid is specifically designed to address the unique challenges of public transport in Nairobi and Africa as a whole. The Roam Rapid offers a solution for the growing number of cities implementing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems across the continent and is the first of its kind in Kenya.
See https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/25/roam-launches-first-electric-mass-transit-bus-in-kenya/
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