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Africa’s Path to Clean Mobility — Driven by Motorcycles | Adetayo Bamiduro | TED

A lack of infrastructure in parts of Africa has made unregulated, gas-powered motorcycle taxis widespread — a system that gets people where they need to be, but heavily pollutes the air and excludes drivers from the formal economy. TED Fellow and entrepreneur Adetayo Bamiduro offers his vision for a cleaner, more equitable future, where an…

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A lack of infrastructure in parts of Africa has made unregulated, gas-powered motorcycle taxis widespread — a system that gets people where they need to be, but heavily pollutes the air and excludes drivers from the formal economy. TED Fellow and entrepreneur Adetayo Bamiduro offers his vision for a cleaner, more equitable future, where an electric motorcycle service helps green Africa’s transportation and transform the lives and livelihoods of drivers.

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  2. Eric Jae

    January 11, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    I speed

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    January 11, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    I am a green bean 🟩🫘

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  4. John Walsh

    January 11, 2023 at 2:24 pm

    Great work Adetayo.

    • Azorean on Mars

      January 11, 2023 at 2:39 pm

      Solar powered scooters would be the best for Africa’s people to move around

    • John Walsh

      January 12, 2023 at 5:02 am

      @Azorean on Mars Is there such a thing?

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    January 11, 2023 at 2:47 pm

    Nigeria 👀👀👀

  6. My name is A9

    January 11, 2023 at 2:55 pm

    We are slowly seeing this in California. We are adding lanes, but we may need to all join in.

  7. Brett

    January 11, 2023 at 4:51 pm

    THIS! Is how you help poor countries and starving people. Maybe give them a few sandwiches, but enable them to make their own way. Let capitalism work for them. Make sure they are paying their way. Dont just pay for motorcycles, a uniform and battery charging. Give them a way to pay for it themselves.

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    January 11, 2023 at 8:22 pm

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  9. Carson Juliot

    January 11, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    How about mmm… trains? These emissions issues are the same that plague most of North America. I don’t think switching from gas to battery energy storage is the long term solution, but if this is a quick fix that improves these drivers’ lives: alright, but there need to be more systemic changes in the direction of mass transit and tweaking city development. I don’t remember him mentioning the change in cost per ride either… but I’m just a joe schmoe who hasn’t done any research on this.

    • Jennifer Nykanen

      January 12, 2023 at 3:49 pm

      Much of today’s light rail systems also run on electric. There’s also the expense of building them/ upkeep of trains and tracks/ remodeling the city

    • Astronics

      January 12, 2023 at 3:50 pm

      Exactly what i think, take European cities for example, they’re objectively better

    • Carson Juliot

      January 12, 2023 at 4:27 pm

      @Jennifer Nykanen I agree. It‘s really not feasible today with the Chinese-built railway connecting Nairobi to Mombasa basically as a gigantic debt trap that had poor risk assessment. All that stuff aside, Kenyan politics are a bit rough right now to support strong development like what I mentioned. We‘ll see what the future holds. ✌️

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  12. Andy Cordy

    January 12, 2023 at 10:45 am

    I confess I chose to watch this video because the speaker is so beautiful.

    The statistics here are truly terrifying. Not least the scale of the increase in population, at the root of the “problem” (but there is a problem).

    I sincerely hope these electrifications can go global. Long live the swoppable battery solution.

  13. Miguel Branco

    January 12, 2023 at 12:25 pm

    Watch out for the sharks! They will go after those poor taxi drivers….the looby is too strong…

  14. Astronics

    January 12, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    This feels much like a temporary fix, investing in public transit and mass transit is the key

  15. Ya Azi

    January 13, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    This mode of transportation has been banned in many cities in Nigeria and rightly so because criminals used it to rob and scam people at will. It’s also dangerous as these two wheel machines are prone to accidents. I will not want my child or parents riding on this thing, these things are death traps.

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