Ampersand aims to have more than 600,000 electric motorcycles across East Africa by 2030.
, one of the pioneers in the African electric motorcycle sector, is ramping up its operations. Ampersand was founded in 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda, and quickly started work on motorbike and battery prototypes which were put on road to get real data in the actual conditions that the motorcycles would be used by customers in the target market. Along with valuable insights, this helped validate and refine its assumptions and then iterate based on the findings.
Ampersand’s motorcycles have been well received in the market, leading to a backlog of reservations. The waiting list currently stands at just over 7,000. One of the major reasons for the uptake was the easier operations and maintenance associated with electric vehicles. Ampersand says its heavy investment in R&D and production on the ground in Kigali has also produced a very reliable battery.
Motorcycle taxi riders are also getting more confident and less worried about range anxiety. Ampersand’s motorcycle with a mid-drive electric motor has an average range of 72 km per charge in Kigali and 80km in Nairobi. Motorcycle taxi riders in Kigali do about 160 km per day. In the early days, riders would arrive at a swap station when the battery was at 40% state of charge . They then became more confident and returned to swap centers when the SOC was about 30%.
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