Electrifying Public Transport: a Route to Africa’s Just Transition {Interview}

BasiGo is an electric vehicle technology and financing company dedicated to introducing electric bus services in sub-Saharan Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company provides state-of-the-art, electric buses, along with charging and maintenance services for city bus operators.

We spoke to BasiGo’s co-founder, Silicon-Valley innovator, Jit Bhattacharya, who explained his vision for clean public transport in African cities, as a means to cut emissions, while driving growth and green industrialization. Jit also discussed his recent meeting with the U.S. President Biden and Kenya’s President Ruto – to discuss what Biden called “a new era of technological cooperation” between the US and Kenya.