When Uganda’s first locally made electric vehicle hit the road in 2011, it embodied more of Kampala’s innovative youth than the country’s push for more environmental-friendly means of transport, and far less of the economic stability and prosperity electric mobility could bring.
The first Kiira electric vehicle was designed in 2009 by a group of Makerere University students and would later culminate in the creation of the state-owned Kiira Motors Limited, which built the continent’s first electric buses and put Uganda miles ahead of its East African peers in the journey to e electric mobility.
