From DW REV – Cars & Mobility.

In Tanzania, soaring fuel prices and worsening air pollution pushed one unlikely inventor to rethink mobility. Political cartoonist Masoud Kipanya spent 11 months hand‑building and engineering the country’s first domestically designed electric pickup truck — aimed not at elites, but at low‑income traders and delivery drivers. [Script YT…nzania (1) | Word]
With locally sourced components and imported batteries and motors from China, the compact EV promises dramatically lower running costs and a range of up to 160 kilometres. Buyers say daily energy costs drop from around 20 US dollars for petrol to just 3 dollars for charging — even in a country without a public charging network and with frequent power outages.
As orders grow and interest reaches beyond Tanzania’s borders — including from William Ruto and the Kingdom of Eswatini — Kipanya’s project raises a bigger question: could locally built EVs become a realistic path to clean, affordable mobility in Africa?
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Chapters
00:00 – Tanzania’s First Home‑Built Electric Vehicle
00:09 – Fuel Prices, Pollution, and a Radical Idea
00:16 – From Political Cartoons to Car Design
00:28 – Building an Electric Pickup by Hand
00:47 – Why EVs Make Economic Sense for Traders
01:03 – Range, Charging, and Daily Use
01:16 – East Africa’s Growing EV Scene
01:23 – The Charging Infrastructure Problem
01:31 – New Designs and Regional Interest
01:48 – Making Electric Mobility Affordable for All

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