Ampersand

A company founded in 2019 that builds electric motorcycles assembled in Africa and operates a battery-swap network centred on Kigali, Rwanda and since extended into Kenya, where riders, mostly motorcycle-taxi drivers, lease charged batteries from swap stations rather than own them. The company states that this creates over 170 local assembly jobs and roughly a 40% income increase for drivers, with an over-80% cut in greenhouse-gas emissions relative to petrol motorcycles.