Early this year, GNN reported on the woman behind the wheels of Wahu!, an electric bicycle company and the only native electric vehicle manufacturer in Ghana, Valerie Labi.
From 100 bikes sold to delivery drivers on a pay-per-week basis, Wahu! has shifted another 200 units, driven down the cost of insurance, and is set in the coming months to unleash Africa’s first native 4-wheeled electric vehicle.
It’s really cool to see how many new inventions they needed to adapt it for operating in Ghana. Honestly wish we could make something like that work here.
The local adaptations are the real genius here - designing for dust, heat, and unreliable power grids is somthing western EV makers could learn from instead of just making luxury vehicles with fancy touchscreens.
So cool!
