Uganda’s Kiira Motors Corporation has embarked on a groundbreaking milestone in global electric mobility. The company is undertaking a 13,000 km journey—starting from Kampala Uganda and ending at Cape Town in South Africa—in what they have named the “The African Electric Expedition“.

This extraordinary journey is being completed with a 500 km–range pure electric bus, proving not only the strength of African engineering but also Africa’s readiness to lead in sustainable transportation.

With charging points strategically placed across several countries, the team has successfully traveled through Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, and into South Africa. Each charging stop demonstrates the growing infrastructure and cooperation across the region to support clean mobility.

What makes this achievement even more remarkable is that nowhere else in the world has such an electric vehicle technology test ever been attempted—let alone completed—at this scale. Not even in China, the global leader in electric vehicles, has electric mobility technology been pushed to such limits over such a vast continental distance.

Kiira Motors has now placed Africa on the global map by proving that long-distance electric mobility across multiple countries is not just possible—it is happening here, on African soil.