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executive summary

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Various perspectives Experts state that more than 100 EV types of

passenger cars are available on the global
If we want to answer the question whether
market by 2020. A similar trend can be seen
we can transform one of the LDCs* to be
at EV motorbikes across various emerging
fully EV-enabled by 2025, we need to dive
countries.
into this subject from various perspectives.

In terms of affordability, we target a
At the same time, we are looking from the
maximum RRP of 2.000 USD for a EV
technology perspective, we also have to look
motorbike with a range of 100 kilometers
at the micro-economical perspective. In
and a maximum speed of 100
other words, the technology must be
kilometers/hour.
sufficiently affordable to be attractive for the
customers.
As motorbikes are not only commonly used
from commuters but also as two-wheeler
As we are also talking about a nation-wide
taxis in emerging and developing countries,
transformation, we also need to consider
we also have to look into the EV
macro-econimc dynamics.
infrastructure.

We cannot expect a boda-boda-driver, that's
how two-wheeler-taxi-drivers are called in

the East African Community (EAC), to wait for
one or two hours until he can serve his next

customer. Hence, we also need to look into
the usability of the EV infrastructure.