15 BYD K6 electric buses arrived in Mombasa yesterday on the ship Morning Christina. This is the largest ever shipment of electric buses in the region
The AVA production facilities are designed for an output of 30,000 units per year. AVA’s plant is located at Miritini in Mombasa County and currently assembles around 4,000 vehicles every year for world-leading brands, including Fuso, Toyota, Proton, Mahindra, Hino, Scania, Tata, Bieben, Volvo, and Bajaj. This means that the plant has plenty of room to assemble a lot more of the electric buses.
Operators can buy the K6 bus for about KSh 5 million and then pay KSh20 per km on the pay-as-you-drive model for battery and associated services . BasiGo first launched electric buses into pilot operation in Nairobi starting in March of 2022. The company’s two pilot buses have driven over 120,000 kilometers and carried over 150,000 passengers with two separate bus operators: Citi Hoppa and East Shuttle. This new shipment is the same model of electric bus as the pilot program.
“Assembly is just one aspect of localization. Rather than burning imported diesel, these buses will be powered entirely with locally produced renewable energy. The locally generated electricity should be included in the consideration of local content going into the bus.”
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