De groei van electrische moto's in Afrika, startup Spiro

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Met snelle batterijwissels.

https://spironet.com/

OUR STORY

Founded in 2019, Spiro began as “M Auto Electric”. M Auto worked for eight years on streamlining the auto-rickshaw industry and introducing gender inclusion in transportation. M Auto was launched in Africa in 2022 and is currently operational in Benin, Togo, Rwanda and Uganda.

We introduced world-class electric three-wheelers and two-wheelers to revolutionize and bring a new perspective to the auto-rickshaw, personal transport, and intra-city commuting services market.

Spiro is on the verge of becoming an innovation leader in sustainable vehicle designing and smart battery development using exceptional engineering.

Benefits include:
- Easy battery-swapping, bring back home and charge in 3 hours.
- Rent-to-own model for effortless onboarding.
- Enhance environmental benefits with no carbon emissions.

In 2022, we underwent a rebrand to launch Spiro. We leveraged our experience in innovation and market understanding to create a brand that offers a desirable yet sustainable long-term ecosystem for urban mobility.

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Last Updated: Aug 05, 2023

African electric motorcycle startup Spiro to expand Kenya and Uganda

Interview met CEO: https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/...ro-ceo/154463/
Er is geld voor expansie

https://electrek.co/2023/08/09/afric...nal-expansion/
African electric motorcycle company Spiro lands funds for major international expansion

Micah Toll. | Aug 9 2023

The last time we heard from African electric motorcycle startup Spiro, the company was planning to roll out 140,000 e-motos in Uganda. Now Spiro is working to put even more bikes and battery swap stations on the road thanks to new funding.

The company just landed approximately US $63 million, in partnership with Societe Generale and GuarantCo, part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG).

The funds will allow Spiro to significantly expand its fleet of electric motorbikes as well as the swappable batteries and swap stations designed to make those bikes even more useful to local riders. The expansion plans will largely take place in the African nations of Benin and Togo.

Africa’s electric motorcycle is leapfrogging much of the rest of the world, with companies such as Spiro, Roam, and Zembo offering battery swapping electric motorcycles that are built locally for the massive motorcycle taxi (boda boda) fleets.

I had the chance to speak with Spiro’s CEO Jules Saiman recently, who discussed the company’s growth plans with me.

The company expects installation of new charging/swap stations to create hundreds jobs in the area, as well as thousands of new jobs associated with operations and maintenance roles. Spiro says that it is aiming for at least 30% of these roles to be filled by women and is “offering technical and leadership programs to enhance their skills.”

Inclusion of women in the production of electric motorcycle has been a growing trend, with companies **like Ola offering extensive training to fill its electric motorbike factories with female workers.

** In India is het bvb. Ola die al jaren e-scooters maakt, enkel door vrouwen (oud nieuws):

https://electrek.co/2021/09/13/olas-...men-heres-why/
Sep 13 2021

Ola’s popular 70 mph electric scooters to be built entirely by women. Here’s why

The news came in the form of a blog post by Aggarwal where he laid out the plan, which includes employing around 10,000 women to work in the gigantic electric scooter factory.

The Futurefactory has an initial planned production capacity of 2 million electric scooters per year, but is planned to eventually reach an annual rate of 10 million electric scooters. Ola expects to supply 15% of the world’s electric scooters by next year, and the scooters will be built by an entirely female workforce, including female managers.