- Yamaha Motors collaborate with Africa's first mobility tech platform 'Max'
- More electric buses are on their way to African roads
- Rwanda Innovation Fund to invest in MAX.ng’s electric vehicles
- Kenya, Morocco and South Africa invest in electric vehicle charging stations
- Isuzu East Africa provides the ministry with 48 cars in leasing deal
- Carcarbaba, a car-dealing company debuts in Rwanda
- Autoexpo Kenya showcasing automotive equipment from around the world
- Hyundai dealer to assemble cars in Kenya
- Kenya Govt plans to exempt locally assembled cars from VAT and excise taxes
- Kenya will stop the importation of used passenger mini-buses and large buses from July 1, the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)
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Kenyan electric vehicle start-up BasiGo raises Sh488m for local assembly
Nairobi-based electric car start-up BasiGo has secured Sh488.6 million ($4.3 million) in a second round of investment to help it develop its sustainable transportation company. The funding Read More..
Posted on : 30 Mar,2022
China truck manufacturer Sinotruk Eyes Assembly Plant in Tanzania
Sinotruk International, a heavy trucking company based in China, intends to build a vehicle assembly factory in Tanzania to help the country's auto sector flourish. Mr Li zhongyuan, Country Read More..
Posted on : 30 Mar,2022
Rwanda is turning to electric motorcycles to reduce pollutants
Rwanda Electric Motors Ltd has so far converted roughly 80 motorcycle taxis—the most prevalent mode of public transportation in Kigali—and manufactured another 200 brand-new electric Read More..
Posted on : 28 Feb,2022
Green Tech Ethiopia enters the Ethiopian electric vehicle market
Green Tech Ethiopia, a private firm in Ethiopia, today presented six kinds of imported rechargeable electric automobiles to the Ethiopian market, with a short-term objective of importing 5,000 Read More..
Posted on : 28 Feb,2022
Kenya Govt Starts Mass Buying of Electric Buses for BRT Project
The Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (NaMATA) has began the process of procuring electric and fuel buses for the Nairobi Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system. NaMATA requested Read More..
Posted on : 02 Feb,2022
Chinese firm sets up an electric vehicle assembly plant in Rwanda
Tailing Electric Vehicle, a Chinese corporation, has opened a motorbike and tricycle assembly facility in Rwanda in an effort to reduce global emissions and develop a green economy. The Read More..
Posted on : 02 Feb,2022
Marathon Motors Sets Up First Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Ethiopia
In the presence of key government officials, Marathon Motors Engineering Plc unveiled the first electric vehicle (EV) charging station in Addis Ababa, as well as new EV models. Marathon Read More..
Posted on : 29 Dec,2021
Automotive manufacturing expected to be a major driver of African trade
Supporters of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) believe that full tariff liberalisation in the automobile manufacturing and food processing sectors will liberate billions of Read More..
Posted on : 29 Dec,2021
European Union funds uYilo e-Mobility to expand in Africa
The European Union's new financing for South Africa's uYilo e-Mobility Programme will eventually show the rest of Africa how to build large-scale sustainable energy projects. The funding was Read More..
Posted on : 01 Dec,2021
Nissan Tanzania plans to build assembly plant in the country
Nissan Tanzania Limited, a global automotive manufacturer, has stated that it aims to assist in the building of a factory in the nation after seeing possible signals of a rising vehicle Read More..
Posted on : 29 Nov,2021
Exhibitions In Africa
- 23rd Autoexpo Tanzania 2022
Diamond Jubilee Expo Center, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania - 04th Autoexpo Ethiopia 2022
Millennium Hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 24th Autoexpo Kenya 2023
KICC, Nairobi, Kenya