Kenya-based Spiro, a leader in two-wheel transportation and battery-swapping, has launched operations in Rwanda and Cameroon as it continues to expand across the continent.
Spiro is Africa’s largest electric mobility company, operating the continent’s most extensive and fastest growing network of battery-swapping for electric two-wheel vehicles. It has operational assembling facilities in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda.
With more than 95,000 electric motorcycles, over 2,500 battery swapping stations and more than 30 million battery swaps to date, Spiro has achieved over 1 billion kilometres of low-carbon emissions travel, the company is substituting expensive imported fossil fuel- based transportation with affordable, accessible and sustainable solutions.
The company raised US$100 million in funding last October and then a further US$50 million earlier this year to fund its expansion, and it has now begun that process by launching in Rwanda and Cameroon.
In Rwanda, Spiro has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESP) to launch the Women in E-Mobility initiative, a strategic programme aimed at advancing inclusive mobility and increasing women’s participation in Africa’s rapidly growing e-mobility sector.
The initiative, which will be expanded into other markets, seeks to address the structural barriers that continue to limit women’s participation in the mobility economy, including limited access to productive assets, financing, technical training, digital tools, and structured market opportunities. Spiro will contribute through its electric mobility infrastructure, battery-swapping ecosystem, operational expertise, and financing capabilities, while ESP will lead programme design, entrepreneurship development, training, coaching, and implementation support.
Spiro has also launched operations in Cameroon, meaning it is now operational across seven African markets, alongside an additional pilot programme in Tanzania, reinforcing the company’s ambition to scale clean mobility solutions across the continent.
“With more than 95,000 electric motorcycles on the road across Africa and 2,500 battery-swapping stations deployed, we are no longer demonstrating potential, we are demonstrating scale. Through continued expansion, innovation, and strategic partnerships such as our collaboration with ESP, Spiro is helping build a cleaner, more accessible, and more inclusive mobility ecosystem for the continent,” said Kaushik Burman, CEO of Spiro.
