Africa, shifting to EVs

"The shift towards electric mobility is gradually taking place on the continent. Start-ups providing app-based mobility services using electric motorcycles and tuktuks are popping up like mushrooms all over Sub-Sahara Africa, used EV’s such as the Nissan Leaf making their way into the market and serving as taxis in African cities, and progressive metropoles such as Abidjan and Johannesburg have outlined concrete plans to introduce electric bus-rapid transit systems into their public transportation infrastructure... The potential to reduce dependency on petroleum fuels and in the process increase energy security, mitigate greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions through the use of electric motorcycles, tuktuks, cars, minibuses and buses in public transport fleets on the African continent, is huge. "