How ready is East Africa for electric vehicles?
The region has ambitious plans to go electric, but how feasible are they?
Africa Daily · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
Two of East Africa’s big countries and economies have voiced ambitious plans to get in on the electric vehicles revolution.
Only last week Kenya Power announced it’s investing in a network of charging stations for electric vehicles across the country.
In a recent interview with Africa Daily, Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni revealed his country had started to assemble their own electric vehicles to reduce their reliance on imported fuel.
But despite these plans, a few challenges remain, for example Africa has some of the world's most unreliable and expensive electricity, and charging infrastructure remains scarce.
So how ready is East Africa for the transition from diesel fuelled cars to electric vehicles? And how long might it take to get there – are we talking decades?
Victoria Uwonkunda speaks to Peter Mwangangi, BBC business reporter in Nairobi, Edna Odhiambo, a climate change lawyer and Moses Nderitu, the Chief Revenue Officer for BasiGo, a Kenyan e-mobility start-up to find out.