Songa Mobility
Kenya, Africa
Empowering rural Africa with a technology driven and sustainable electric mobility platform, driving innovative transportation business models and ecosystems.
Website
www.songa.mobi
Partners
The Toyota Mobility Foundation,
DOEN Foundation, UNEP
Key figures
70 vehicles
5 hubs
7 500 farmers
Domains
Innovation for Impact,
e-Mobility, Renewable Energy, Bottom of the Pyramid, Mobility As A Service
Date
2022 - Present
The Challenge
Smallholder farmers lack access to market which leads to food losses and low income. This is a problem faced by over 200 million smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Still, they are hard workers and productive and together could aggregate meaningful volumes.
The 1st wave of e-mobility in Africa has highlighted the potential as well as the hurdles for scalable adoption. Electric 2 and 3 Wheelers have proven to save money and reduce emissions, but have so far done so in urban and dense areas. Rural customers (farmers, outgrowers, etc.) have vastly different technical, operational and business model requirements for e-mobility to sustainably unlock opportunities through access to market.
The Innovation
Identifying and confronting these gaps in business model, utility, reliability, repairability, data insights and fleet management, SONGA Mobility has successfully pioneered an integrated and sustainable rural eMobility platform.
This platform is comprised of Hardware (Solar Charging Stations, Electric trikes, Refurbishable Li-ion Batteries), Software (Mobile & Web fleet & transaction management platforms), IoT (Remote control for the vehicles & batteries), solid operations and a “WIN WIN WIN” Business Model ensuring its sustainability.
