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How Kenya’s E-Mobility shift could redefine urban planning

Malcom Rutere by Malcom Rutere
June 5, 2025
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On the busy roads of Nairobi, one could not help but notice the surge in the number of electric motorcycles that are active in the city. Transport companies such as Uber and Bolt are gradually shifting to these electric motorcycles from these traditional motorcycles which use fossil fuels to be powered. However, these motorcycles are slowly becoming increasingly solar powered, thanks to a growing trend among Kenya’s e-mobility companies to shift towards solar power. At first, this shift may seem to be economically motivated. With rising electricity costs, solar energy offers predictable costs for companies managing thousands of electric vehicles. However, what started as a cost-saving measure is beginning to expose a powerful idea that energy and movement no longer need to be centralized.

 Across Nairobi and other major cities, solar charging hubs are emerging in places that the formal city has long overlooked. These hubs do not rely on the national power grid and they don’t need traditional fuel infrastructure. Their modular design and solar dependence make them easy to deploy in informal areas and in areas previously unreachable by fossil-fuel infrastructure. The shift is significant since it fosters a model where urban centres grow from the margins inward.

As solar energy access increases, it creates new economic centres around which commerce and digital services begin to cluster. In effect, solar e-mobility is decentralizing urban development, fragmenting the traditional model of centralized infrastructure. If energy can be accessed off-grid, and transport is electric and affordable, then the logic of proximity changes. Workers don’t need to live near town centres. Market vendors can operate further from grid-tied towns. Deliveries and even healthcare services can reach deeper into the urban outskirts. In this way, solar-powered e-mobility begins to blur the lines between energy access, mobility, and spatial planning. It opens the door to new forms of polycentric development where urban layouts that don’t rely on a single downtown core, but instead consist of distributed hubs connected by light, green transport.

However, the planning system is still catching up with Kenya’s urban growth strategies, which remain anchored in 20th-century assumptions in which roads lead to cars, that fuel flows through central depots, and that power comes from the national grid. But this model is growing obsolete. In its place, a new planning logic is emerging, one built on resilience, modularity, and renewable energy.

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The shift toward solar-powered e-mobility may have started as a business response to high electricity costs. But its implications stretch far beyond transport. It challenges the centralization of cities, the rigidity of planning frameworks, and the dependence on carbon-heavy infrastructure. It offers a glimpse of cities that are lighter, cleaner, and more evenly distributed.

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