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Costly batteries slow down Car & General electric tuk-tuk sales
Principal Secretary of the State Department for Energy, Alex Wachira (left), and Car & General Marketing Executive, Consolata Mungai, showcase one of the electric tuk-tuks during the 3rd Annual E-Mobility Stakeholders Conference and Expo at the KICC in Nairobi on May 5, 2025.
Car & General has announced that it has sold only 15 of the electric three-wheelers (tuk-tuks) it unveiled in the Kenyan market in February last year, marking an underwhelming sales performance that the firm attributes to a high cost of in-built batteries.
The company’s general manager in charge of trading George Rubiri told the Business Daily that the cost of a fixed battery has proved too high as it makes up around 50 percent of the price of the tuk-tuk, adding that the firm is in high gear to shift the model to a battery swap system.
