These electric cars made in Africa would be the next big thing in the world

This Ugandan car, the Kiira EV Smack, was part of the electric vehicles manufactured by university students in the country — Photo via kiiramotors.com

The Kiira EV (Uganda)

The Kiira EV, was built and unveiled by students of Uganda’s Makerere University in 2011 with support from the Government of Uganda for Innovation Projects at the university.

The students founded the Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC) company after they partook in the Vehicle Design Summit (VDS 2.0) organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007. At the end of the summit, they successfully helped design and build the Vision 200; an environmentally friendly 5-seater plug-in hybrid electric vehicle which was unveiled in 2008.

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Etsey Atisu

Etsey Atisu prefers to be called a born writer, before anything else. He is a trained journalist, a consultant and a blogger. He is passionate about writing right and that fuels his desires to tell contemporary African stories from the angle of the African. He is avid about reading. He is also an author of a relationship-themed book, Epistles To My Bubune, which catalogues the sentiments of a prospective husband, writing to his prospective wife, concerning basically all that he hopes to see in their future marriage.

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