Uganda unveils Africa’s first solar-powered bus

As a child, Ugandan Paul Isaac Musasizi always had busy hands. He regularly pulled apart the family television, and used motors from old cassette players to make toy cars.

Now, in his mid-thirties, he’s the CEO of technology company Kiira Motors Corporation and the brains behind Africa’s first solar-powered electric bus which makes its debut on February 16.

“In Uganda, we have non-stop sun,” he says. “No other countries manufacturing vehicles are on the equator like Uganda. We should celebrate that, and make a business out of it.”