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Inside the battery-rental model powering Kenya’s electric motorbike uptake
Arc Ride batteries and service engineer Sammy Waweru explains how a battery swap station works during the launch of the Zoom motorbike and automated battery swap station at Kmall, Nairobi, on June 26, 2023.
At one corner of a busy roadside filling station in Nairobi’s Hurlingham area, a line of about 16 motorcycle taxi riders, commonly known as boda bodas, snakes towards a compact steel kiosk stacked with rectangular battery packs.
One rider rolls in, lifts out a depleted unit from beneath his bike’s seat, and in three minutes slots in a fully charged replacement before speeding off to his next customer as the afternoon rush begins.
