{"id":20704,"date":"2021-12-10T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/12\/10\/the-rwanda-start-up-helping-motorcycle-taxis-go-electric\/"},"modified":"2021-12-10T21:10:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:10:05","slug":"the-rwanda-start-up-helping-motorcycle-taxis-go-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/12\/10\/the-rwanda-start-up-helping-motorcycle-taxis-go-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rwanda start-up helping motorcycle taxis go electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rwanda-based start-up Ampersand has an ambitious target: to convert all of the country&rsquo;s motorcycle taxis to electric bikes by 2025. The company, which makes both electric motorcycles and batteries, so far counts fifty motorcycle taxi drivers among its customers, who can also\u00a0use Ampersand&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0swap stations\u00a0\u00bb to recharge their vehicles. It hopes to increase this tally\u00a0to 500 drivers by early 2022.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda-based start-up Ampersand has an ambitious target: to convert all of the country&rsquo;s motorcycle taxis to electric bikes by 2025. The company, which makes both electric motorcycles and batteries, so far counts fifty motorcycle taxi drivers among its customers, who can also\u00a0use Ampersand&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0swap stations\u00a0\u00bb to recharge their vehicles. It hopes to increase this tally\u00a0to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-20704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}