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How to Make Transportation Quieter, Cleaner and Cheaper | Doreen Orishaba | TED
How to Make Transportation Quieter, Cleaner and Cheaper | Doreen Orishaba | TED
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When you sit in your car or any car,
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do you ever wonder how many parts that car is made of?
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Anyone?
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Oh, great.
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Do you also ever wonder
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what does it really take to put all this together?
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Anyone?
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Oh, great.
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Now let me get to it.
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How many of you have ever built a car from scratch?
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Oh, great, good to see you.
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Absolutely.
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And I’m also honored to say that I have,
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an electric one at that.
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Growing up as a follower of four boys
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earned me an early ticket
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to the fascinating world of speed and cars.
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There's something thrilling, something very powerful about, you know,
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the vehicles, the elegance of the design,
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the engineering, putting it all together.
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But what really excites me the most today
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is the future of mobility.
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Electric mobility.
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I was first introduced to the electric vehicle world
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during my time as a student
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at Makerere University.
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Kiira Motors of Uganda
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was the very first company on this continent
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to dream beyond fuel.
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In 2011, Kiira Motors built Africa's very first electric car.
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Doesn't it look great?
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And this is at a time
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when the rest of Africa was not paying any attention whatsoever
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to the electric vehicle space,
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or even the urgency of addressing the climate crisis.
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I was privileged to join this team,
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and we moved on to produce Africa's very first
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plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
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Would you buy that?
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Audience: Yes.
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Doreen Orishaba: Great.
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And we also proceeded to build
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Africa's first solar electric bus prototype.
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(Applause)
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As you can imagine, at that time,
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we’re talking about more than 10 years ago,
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some people used to think
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maybe this electric vehicle stuff,
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these are toys for the Western world.
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But for us, we were driven by the vision
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that Africa should contribute to the future of electric mobility
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and not just be a consumer.
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Electric buses are now a very prime opportunity.
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Buses are the lifeline in African cities,
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moving over 60 percent of the population every single day.
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And public transport in most of the regions in Africa,
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it's led by the private sector.
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So we have electric mobility start-ups
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that are driving, really, the vision of electric buses.
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This is happening here in Kenya, in Rwanda, in Nigeria.
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But at the end of the day, despite all these efforts,
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scaling electric mobility is facing huge challenges.
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Talk of range anxiety,
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the high upfront cost of electric vehicles
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and limited charging infrastructure
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is really slowing down the adoption of electric mobility.
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But these challenges are not new.
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They are the same hindrances that stopped the electric vehicle
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from growing in the 1890s.
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However, the times are different.
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We cannot afford to wait.
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The planet is telling us that we need to act really soon,
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and we are proving that there is a way to overcome these challenges.
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I am Doreen Orishaba,
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the Managing Director of BasiGo, Rwanda.
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At BasiGo, we provide electric buses
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as a cost-effective alternative to the diesel bus.
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We started out here in Nairobi in 2022,
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and we've scaled now into Rwanda
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with now a total fleet of 77 buses between both countries.
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And every single day,
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we are enabling the commute of over 30,000 passengers between both countries.
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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We've built this by overcoming some of these challenges.
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Number one, we are cheaper than diesel.
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Electricity in both Kenya and Rwanda
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is locally generated from renewables like hydro and wind.
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That not only makes electricity much cheaper,
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but also cleaner,
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because remember that diesel is all imported here.
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So electricity is cheaper, it's cleaner and it's more stable.
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We design for the local needs.
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Have you ever wondered what kind of specification do we need for the bus
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to be deployed in any of these markets?
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We do not make assumptions.
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We pilot with a small fleet
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and then scale based on the local needs.
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We're getting an optimized battery capacities,
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the suspension systems, the drive systems,
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and make sure that at the end of the day,
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we are using the real-life route data in order to scale.
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I recall when we were doing the market survey in Rwanda,
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one of the top questions that we always received was,
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"Are you sure your electric bus will be able to handle Kigali's Hills?"
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It's been 18 months now of our operation and that question is now history.
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As you can see, the bus is able to go up that hill.
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(Applause)
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We equip our buses with high-torque motors for the steep inclines
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and regenerative braking for the descent
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to be able to harvest the energy back into the battery.
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And then this boosts the efficiency of our buses
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as well as minimizing the brake wear.
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One thing that really excites me about our Nairobi fleet
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is we are locally assembling these electric buses right here.
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(Applause)
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I hope each of you has had a chance to ride on the bus,
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and we hope that you like it.
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These buses have been built with lots of love and passion.
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And you know, local assembly not only helps reduce the cost,
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but we are enabling to build the critical local manufacturing capacity
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on the planet
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while also creating jobs.
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At the end of the day,
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it's going to be about, what can we all do together?
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How do we handle the range anxiety?
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We are building up charging infrastructure.
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Let me ask you, what's your dream car?
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Did you ever think about,
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"Oh, now that I'm buying the car,
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I also need to build a gas station for it."
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Right?
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No one ever thinks about that.
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It should be no different for the electric vehicles.
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As BasiGo, we go out and build the charging infrastructure,
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we have a dedicated charging infrastructure team
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that identifies and builds out the charging stations.
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We handle all the permitting,
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all the compliance requirements,
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so that our partners do not have to do that.
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And we've built stations
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in strategically located places right near the bus routes.
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At our stations, we're able to recharge our buses
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in about one and a half to two hours,
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removing this entire burden from the operators.
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Think about service and maintenance.
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We take this burden away from the operator as well.
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You know, new technology can be intimidating, right?
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Especially when there is no local available capacity
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to be able to support that.
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So as BasiGo, we have set up service centers in both Kenya and Rwanda,
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fully equipped with trained staff, specialized tools,
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as well as part inventory to minimize the downtime of these buses.
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However, our biggest innovation is in the financing of these buses.
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We provide the buses through a lease model
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that we call Pay-As-You-Drive,
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taking away the need for the operators to invest heavily at the start.
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I've seen firsthand the transformation
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that electric mobility is bringing to Kenya and Rwanda.
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The smiles and the awe of the passengers as they experience the BasiGo bus.
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A ride so quiet and yet so revolutionary.
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The relief of the operators
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being able to scale without being choked by the heavy bank loans.
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But I'll be honest and say, is it a smooth ride?
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Perhaps not.
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We're experiencing different challenges,
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right from product iteration to the flooding
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that we recently faced here in Nairobi,
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which is a direct threat to our operation
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because of where our batteries are placed.
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But then it's a reminder
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of why we are doing this.
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Climate change.
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And I'll be honest and say,
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at the end of the day,
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we wouldn't trade those experiences for anything else.
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It is what's bringing us together as a team.
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Given where we are,
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Africa really has the potential to be able to lead
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in this electric-mobility movement across the globe.
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Think about here in East Africa,
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our electricity is over 90 percent renewable.
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That means deploying an electric vehicle here
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has much greater impact than anywhere else in the world.
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One of our electric buses replacing a diesel bus
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enables the mitigation of up to 50 tonnes of CO2
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every single year.
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That is five times more
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than what the Tesla is able to mitigate in California.
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And what is that speaking to?
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Africa has already proven that, you know,
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we are able to lead in electric vehicle mobility.
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We do not have to follow the path of fossil fuel that we followed before.
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We don’t have to catch up on the electric vehicle mobility movement.
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We can actually lead this.
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So far, we have proven that, you know, zero-carbon transport is possible.
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It's viable here in Africa with the greatest environmental impact,
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with greater social impact
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and with no government subsidy.
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(Applause)
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Africa definitely has the potential to be able to lead
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in some of these other sectors
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that were previously stated to be out of the reach for us.
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I hope you will be on board as we make this a reality.
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(Swahili) Thank you.
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(Applause)
