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    Electric Dreams: East Africa On The Move

    Dec 01, 2021 4 minutes
    BY MARIE SHABAYA

    IN THE QUIET TOWN OF RUIRU, IN KIAMBU COUNTY, 15 miles east of Nairobi, a quiet revolution is underway. Fika Mobility, a startup within Kenya’s budding electric vehicle sector, has been assembling electric motorcycles there for almost two years now. These early prototypes are currently in use around the town and parts of Nairobi, where boda boda, commuter and freight motorbike riders, are seeing massive changes to their bottomline due to the energy efficiency of the electric bikes.

    “If you look at what bodariders take home, they actually work 12-15 hour days... it’s very competitive and they take very little home. I only began to appreciate this when I started our research, two years ago. We realized that one

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