Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kiira Motors Corporation, a budding indigenous mobility enterprise in the country has presented a 524 billion Shillings proposed business investment budget to the Presidential Affairs Committee of Parliament. It was contained in the Ministerial Policy Statement, and Budget Estimates for the FY 2024/2025. “We are …
Read More »President to launch Kiira Motors Electric Trike at National Science Week 2023
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans will get a chance to showcase the leap into a new era of innovation at the National Science Week to take place from the 6th to the 11th of November 2023. President Yoweri Museveni will be chief guest at the event at …
Read More »Kiira Motors plant ready to roll out vehicles in 2023
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Dr Monica Musenero last week announced that starting June 2023, Kiira Motors buses will be manufactured at the Jinja-based vehicle manufacturing plant. Musenero, who visited the plant to inspect the progress of the project at Jinja industrial and …
Read More »UNDP praises Uganda for Kiira Motors and drive to E-mobility
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations Development Programme – UNDP has described as ‘promising’ Uganda’s speedy transition towards electric mobility as a lasting solution to the supply shocks of fossil fuel and its hazards. E-mobility is a concept of using electric powertrain technologies, in-vehicle information, and communication technologies and …
Read More »Uganda turning to electric boda bodas, buses for public transport
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Monica Musenero said the government has started the process of investing massively in electric public transport means including vehicles and motorbikes to help drive down emissions. “We have come up with a plan and an inter-ministerial taskforce that …
Read More »Kayoola EVS boasts of increasing passenger numbers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Operators of Uganda’s first-ever passenger electric bus, Kayoola EVS, are registering a high number of passengers. Kayoola bus is manufactured in Uganda by Kiira Motors Corporation. Two of these,have been offering passenger services at the Northern Bypass. On Monday, Kalita transporters deployed two Kira Motors Kayoola …
Read More »Ambassadors to market Uganda’s Kiira motors vehicles
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commissioned Uganda’s heads of missions abroad to market Kiira Motors Corporation locally made vehicles. The ministry’s Permanent Secretary sees this as a means of marketing the country’s technology and industrial advancements to the rest of the world. While addressing …
Read More »Kiira Motors to deliver 10 buses in 2021
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kiira Motors Corporation says it will deliver 10 buses by end of this year, a paltry one percent of the more than 1,000 buses the state owned corporation had promised. The 10 buses, Allan Muhumuza, the Director of Marketing and Sales at Kiira Motors says …
Read More »Delayed funding slows construction of Kiira Motors plant
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The construction work at the Jinja based Kiira motors cooperation plant has slowed down because of delayed government funding. So far, only Shillings 80billion out of the Shillings 143 billion approved by the cabinet in 2018 for the construction work has been released. The Uganda People’s …
Read More »Tondeka bus unveils launch plan and use of digital ticketing
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 buses, largely locally-made could be plying the roads between Kampala and neighboring districts later this year, courtesy of a joint venture investment by Kiira Motor Corporation (KMC), Tondeka Metro Company Limited, RentCo Africa Limited (RentCo) and Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co. Ltd. …
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