Kenya seeks to build 10,000 charging stations

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Kenya is planning to build 10,000 EV charging stations by 2030 to facilitate adoption. This will require an investment of about $47.26 million, according to a policy document from the country’s energy ministry. The project, to be fully funded via public funds, is a major scale up of the initial project. Kenya, one of Africa’s top EV markets, initially planned to build 1,000 chargers. 

• Kenya has a few dozen public charging stations. This is insufficient to serve the growing number of EVs in the country. It had 5,294 EVs as of December 2024, which is a 41% increase from the 3,753 a year earlier. 

• The East African country is riddled with debt amid lackluster revenue collection. This has made financing of public projects slow and reliant on borrowing. It means it could take many years for implementation of the project to start. 

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