Battery swapping stations catching on for Kenya electric motorbikes

NAIROBI, Kenya: In a sign of an electric motorcycle revolution starting to unfold in Kenya, sets of sturdy, brightly-branded battery swapping stations have appeared around the capital, Nairobi, where electric motorcyclists can exchange their low batteries for fully-charged ones.

While combustion-engine motorbikes are a cheaper and quicker way to travel around than cars, they are 10 times more polluting than elec