eFTD Africa unveils plan for 18,000 eco-friendly motorcycles
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In a move towards sustainable transportation, eFTD Africa, an eco-friendly last-mile delivery company, has announced plans to revolutionise the logistics industry by deploying over 18,000 electric motorcycles.
Oluseyi Osinaike, the chief of staff and product manager at eFTD Africa, said this in an interview on Monday in Lagos.
“Beyond the 18,000 electric motorcycles, we also plan to deploy 500 battery swap stations across Lagos and Abuja,” he said.
Mr Osinaike said the battery swap stations would be done through its infrastructure company called Zoome.
“Zoome, which was set up last year, will handle the distribution of batteries, which is the technical support for the electric motorcycles. This will enable riders to easily go into swap stations to change their batteries once it is low,” Mr Osinaike added.
Speaking on how the innovation started, he said that in 2015, FTD Logistics, a company created purely for last-mile delivery utilising internal combustion engine vehicles to carry out services, was founded.
Mr Osinaike said that, however, in 2022, the company began to look for ways to make the business more sustainable, noting that one of the key things that came up was the electric motorcycles.
“We also realised that aside from the high cost of fuel, these electric motorcycles have less moving parts, hence easy to maintain,” Mr Osinaike said.
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