Electric Mobility Leader Spiro Announces Major Expansion and Strategic Milestones Across Africa
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Electric Mobility Leader Spiro Announces Major Expansion and Strategic Milestones Across Africa
Spiro announces a series of strategic milestones reinforcing its leadership position in Africa’s electric mobility sector, including a partnership with Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESP) to boost Women’s access to EV mobility and entrepreneurship, the deployment of more than 100,000 electric motorcycles across the continent, and the launch of Spiro’s operations in Cameroon.
KIGALI, RWANDA 14 MAY 2026 – 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.
Starting with Rwanda, the initiative 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.
The programme will support women entrepreneurs through access to electric motorcycles, financing solutions, training, and integration into mobility and logistics platforms.
Launching first in Rwanda, the initiative is designed to create scalable economic opportunities while promoting inclusive and sustainable mobility across Africa. The partnership reflects a shared ambition between Spiro and ESP to build mobility ecosystems that are both sustainable and economically empowering.
“This partnership represents an opportunity to build a more inclusive mobility ecosystem by creating concrete economic opportunities for women in a rapidly growing sector. By combining Spiro’s e-mobility infrastructure with ESP’s entrepreneurship and implementation expertise, we aim to develop a scalable model that empowers women while contributing to Africa’s sustainable mobility transition.” said Eric Kacou, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at ESP.
Spiro also reached 100,000 electric motorcycles in circulation across its operational markets, marking a major milestone for both the company and the development of electric mobility in Africa. This achievement reflects the accelerating adoption of electric mobility solutions across the continent and growing demand for alternatives that reduce fuel costs, improve rider economics, and contribute to lower emissions.
As part of its continued pan-African expansion, Spiro also announced the launch of operations in Cameroon, further strengthening its presence across key African mobility markets. With this expansion, Spiro 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.
Since its inception, Spiro has developed one of Africa’s largest battery-swapping networks and integrated electric mobility ecosystems, enabling thousands of riders and entrepreneurs to access clean mobility solutions at scale.
“With more than 100,000 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.
About Spiro
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. With 100,000 electric motorcycles, over 2,500 battery swapping stations and more than 30 million battery swaps to date, Spiro has achieved over 1 billion kms of low-carbon emissions travel, transforming mobility and economies through substituting expensive imported fossil fuel-based transportation with affordable, accessible and sustainable solutions. Through its expanding regional production network and operational assembling facilities in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda, Spiro is committed to delivering electric vehicles made in Africa by Africans for Africa & the world. For more information, visit https://www.spironet.com
About ESP
Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESP) is a pan-African consulting and investment firm founded in 2011, with offices in Kigali, Abidjan, Nairobi and Dakar. Operating across 28 countries with a team of nearly 100 professionals, ESP deploys its proprietary Intelligent Capital™ methodology to support entrepreneurs and private sector ecosystems across Africa. Driven by its core value of Equity, ESP places youth, young women, and rural entrepreneurs at the heart of its programs — reaching over 23,700 young women and extending opportunity beyond urban centers through dedicated rural outreach initiatives. ESP has supported more than 12,900 MSMEs, contributed to 43,153 direct jobs, and unlocked USD 104.5 million in access to finance. Committed to a sustainable future, ESP actively embeds green transition considerations into its investment and advisory work to help entrepreneurs pursue growth that is both competitive and climate resilient. ESP’s institutional partners include the Mastercard Foundation, the World Bank Group, and the African Development Bank. For more information, visit https://www.espartners.co
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Flora Limukii
Head of Corporate Communications
Email: flora.limukii@spironet.com
