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Female Entrepreneur Set to Revolutionize Transportation for All of Africa, After Transforming her Native Ghana - Good News Network

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The bikes are sold under an affordable payment plan of around $23 per month for 18-24 months. They cost around $13.5 per month in electricity to charge, a huge drop from the $250 in gasoline that comparative petrol-powered delivery bikes cost.

Now that's a real cost saving right there! Wow.

But I think it's going a bit far to say she'll revolutionize transportation for all of Africa. They are present, from what the article seems to imply, in a single city in Ghana and only just expanding.
- But I think it’s going a bit far to say she’ll revolutionize transportation for all of Africa.
  
  Maybe going a bit far to say she will do it, but they're right that what she's doing will do it. That is, of course, because e-bikes will revolutionize transportation on all the continents (except Antarctica) and there's no reason for Africa to be an exception to that.
  
  Shame about the "plan to launch a four-wheeled vehicle" part, though -- that's just trying to repeat North America's mistakes.
If only people would realise that going electric has so many benefits. But people are so heavily propagandised that they just refuse to see the simple truth.
- going electric has so many benefits
  
  It has the lot of downsides too. Like charging time, or high battery cost
  
  An electric car uses 10-20x more batteries than a PEV, the downside is cars, not EVs.
  
  Have you ever driven an EV or where do you get this sort of "information"?
Early this year, GNN reported on the woman behind the wheels of Wahu!, an electric bicycle company and the only native electric vehicle manufacturer in Ghana, Valerie Labi.

From 100 bikes sold to delivery drivers on a pay-per-week basis, Wahu! has shifted another 200 units, driven down the cost of insurance, and is set in the coming months to unleash Africa’s first native 4-wheeled electric vehicle.
Okay, but why does the gender need to be mentioned?
- it is more impressive due to gender gap and gender inequality indexes on Ghana.
  
  It makes her a positive role model for women in Ghana and other countries.
  
  It's more flavour to the story.
- Sex even. Apparently it is too hard to call someone a woman.
It’s pretty fucked up and bigoted to assume the wants and needs of one city apply to an entire continent. I mean good on this woman for milking the ignorant but eww…
- Where were you for Theranos mate?

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