Kiira Motors (Uganda)
The Kiira Motor Corporation, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, is one of East Africa’s foremost vehicle manufacturing companies and was Founded in 2012 as a partnership between the prestigious Makerere University College of Engineering and Design and the Uganda Ministry of Trade.
Although the company is expected to begin commercial production in 2018, a number of prototype designs are already available. One of them, the Kiira EV Smack, is a five-seater sedan hybrid vehicle that uses both lithium batteries and petrol.