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Charging Forward – Accelerating E-Mobility Adoption in Africa
The African EV Landscape is rapidly changing with increasing adoption of solutions across the African continent. The largest meeting for the African e-mobility industry brought together a number of African and global parties to discuss the challenges and opportunities in this moving space.
Rather than extracting minerals and at best processing them and still exporting out of the continent. I would say that we set up battery manufacturing on the continent to serve the requirements of electric mobility on the continent, to boost the growth of e-mobility.
Ademola Ogunbanjo, Executive Vice President, Oando Clean Energy
Despite there being many barriers to deployment, the rise of e-mobility in Africa could provide answers to many of the socio-environmental and economic challenges facing Africa. E-mobility can be an important way to deal with air pollution in urban areas related to transport in Africa, especially with the projected population growth putting further strain on growing mega cities. E-mobility and the need for battery swapping solutions and smart ways of thinking around charging and grid can become contributors to creating a more dynamic automobile industry in Africa
96% of Africans don’t own vehicles. So yeah, there’s a big market too and problem to be solved.
Jorgs Mbugua, Co-founder, Ebikes Africa
Africa E-Mobility Week is an important dialogue forum with partner Africa E-Mobility Alliance working on driving the necessary harmonising of policy across the African continent to enable the needed scale forward. The Africa E-Mobility Alliance (AfEMA) connects stakeholders in electric mobility ecosystems across Africa. AfEMA seeks to actively drives awareness, activates markets, and catalyses advocacy efforts to transform the transportation landscape into a zero emission sector. They have put forward a bold vision: That by 2030, 30% of all vehicles sold in Africa will be Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs).
Intro Africa will continue this journey and share fresh thought provoking insights to a vibrant and important industry transforming Africa. Working with the storytelling team from Thought Leader Africa to lift up the many stories.
