Mobility for Africa and Disrupt Technology Advisors (South Africa), bottom of the pyramid, technology & consulting organisation, have signed a partnership agreement to work together to develop, build and an end to end integrated digital platform.
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Over the last 3 months as part of setting up our next project site, testing the Hamba in peri urban areas, we have established a presence in Dombashowa, Goromonzi District which is about 40 km from Harare.
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Mobility for Africa has designed bespoke battery and battery swapping charging station that aims to take the Hamba (our E-tricycle) further, is safe & tough for rough off road conditions & energy efficient.
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In January, we took 4 Hambas to Chipinge to initiate testing with dairy farmers by helping them transport milk from two local milk collection centres.
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We were honoured to be nominated in October for an Australia-Africa Minerals and Energy Group (AAMEG) Africa Award in the category of Emerging ESG Leader.
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For the past decade, Cladys Mhlanga has been the nurse -in-charge with the IGAVA clinic. Her commitment to the community’s health and well-being seems boundless. Added to her usual overwhelming array of duties of delivering babies, immunizing children and providing HIV testing and counselling, these days of COVID-19 pandemic, she is also keeping her eye on household hygiene practices.
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Mobility for Africa was excited to be featured in Clean Technica, a prominent online news site for electric transport.
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Never having driven before, trading in the community and selling produce has never been easy for MFA pilot participant Angelina . Public transport is expensive and she often has to wait hours to travel to the trading area, or growth point in Wedza or Marondera, the closest town. A single trip could cost about 35 Zimbabwe dollars (USD2.5) which is 4.38% of her monthly teachers’ salary of 800 Zimbabwean dollars.(USD 55)
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Trading the security of a monthly salary after almost twenty years working in the international development sector to become a social entrepreneur in Africa has been quite a ride. When I set out on to bring the electric vehicle revolution to rural women – the people I believe who need it the most, I was confident that such a brilliant idea would immediately lead to investment and action.
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So having felt a bit lonely when I started talking electric mobility for Africa almost three years ago, it finally seems the winds of change are starting to blow. Now not just Tesla is talking electric. In the last year or two, all the big car companies are introducing new models and investing in partnerships with battery companies. The bottom line is if countries are to meet the targets set under the Paris Agreement to curb carbon emissions, 20 % of all road vehicles should be electric by 2030.
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Women are an important part of the transport market in Africa. They rely on mass transport to get to work, carry goods, access services and transport their children. Yet while transport can make up more than 20 % of their expenses, the suffer from often overcrowded, unreliable, and a poorly regulated transport services.
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While drought in Southern Africa looks likely to enter its second year, and Zimbabwe’s economic isolation remains in place, there is no doubt that the country continues to face tough times. Yet, when I meet with the local people in rural communities, their resilience and strength, is a reminder of the great potential and why we need to continue to believe in them. Small scale agriculture remains the backbone of the economy. With the potential of off grid renewable energy, combined with the potential multi-purpose batteries, provides an exciting opportunity for Africa to overcome many of the challenges that confront small scale farmers
Mobility for Africa has joined the ranks of Expo Live’s network of Global Innovators, receiving their Innovation Impact Grant to help support its efforts to bring solar powered mobility solutions to rural communities, especially women in Africa.
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a 6-month pilot to test electric mobility for rural women, the first of its kind in Zimbabwe, was launched. The initiative, a partnership between China’s Tsinghua University Lifelong Learning Lab, Midlands State University Incubation Hub and Mobility...
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