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Tembo Major initiative to electrify Kenya’s ageing Land Cruisers
Kenyan initiative means 4000 of Africa’s time-served Land Cruisers and Hi-Luxes set to be convered to electric power
A LANDMARK AGREEMENT HAS JUST BEEN REACHED that means a huge number of old Toyota Land Cruisers and Hi-Luxes in Kenya are no longer going to be running around belching out diesel fumes. Instead they’re going to be converted to run with an electric motor.
It’s the result of an initiative between VivoPower, which owns the brand Tembo (which makes the conversion kits), and ETC Mauritius which will sell, distribute and manage the e-LV kits. The idea is to help decarbonise some of the industry sectors in Kenya, such as mining, agriculture, public sector and tourism.
We’re seeing in this issue how going electric is quite often a fi rst-world signalling exercise. But with this programme, something else we’re seeing is how it can get right down to the literal grassroots of organisations and industries that need to move people and material around all the time, often in remote areas and in challenging conditions.
Tembo has a commitment to implement at least 4000 kits over the next few years in Kenya, and the company is hoping to cover not just the main industries but also the private sector too. We all know that Toyotas go on for ever, and at least in Kenya they’re not going to be suffering from so much rain and snow and general gloomy damp as here in the UK, so it makes sense to help keep them motoring on rather than heading off to the knacker’s yard.
Knowing what Hi-Luxes are like, these electric versions will probably be the recipients of whatever new clean energy comes along in 20 years time and the electric motors will be replaced with something else. SPECIALIST 4X4 VEHICLE DISMANTERS JEEP - LAND ROVER SPECIALIST 4X4 VEHICLE DISMANTERS AND MOST MAKES AND MODELS JEEP - LAND ROVER QUALITY GUARANTEED USED PARTS AND MOST MAKES AND MODELS QUALITY GUARANTEED USED PARTS SOME OF THE VEHICLES WE HAVE RECENTLY DISMANTLED: SOME OF THE VEHICLES WE HAVE RECENTLY DISMANTLED:
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