Photo: Wahu Mobility
Wahu wants Ghana’s delivery riders to swap aging petrol motorcycles for e-bikes. Founder Valerie Labi began buying secondhand push bikes during the pandemic and turned them into e-bikes using conversion kits from Amazon. Four years later, Wahu has developed its own licensed e-bike and technology platform for delivery riders, opened an assembly plant in Ghana’s capital, Accra, and is about to close on an $8m investment round. There are now 300 delivery riders using Wahu e-bikes in Accra. They cost $13.60 a month to power, compared with $250 for a petrol vehicle. Labi believes that Wahu design, made with African conditions in mind, could set it apart from cheaper imported e-bikes. Wahu is trialling e-bikes in Lomé, the capital of neighboring Togo, and is also targeting Zambia, Senegal, Morocco and Nigeria.
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