Africa’s Favorite Orange Electric Motorcycle
As sub-Saharan Africa develops, it is becoming increasingly dependent on transportation services – worker and leisure commutes, freight and industrial material transportation, and other movement activities involved in building emerging economies are putting strain on the continent’s logistics. Many new entrepreneurs have seized the opportunity by starting taxi and parcel delivery services of their own. However, the majority of these enterprises rely on cheap motorcycles equipped with inefficient engines. Making up almost half of all vehicles being driven, the pollution emitted by these....
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