A new Car made for Africa in Africa is gaining more attention and could very soon become a car of choice for africa.
In 2009 a computer engineer Joel Jackson arrived in Kenya and one of the first things he noticed was the state of the roads.
Jackson had come to the Kenya with a non-profit organisation to help small-scale farmers increase their productivity, but he soon realised that a more pressing problem existed.
“It became clear that the lack of appropriate transport affected many parts of rural Africa,” he said.
So he set about building something that would fill that gap – a $6,000 car.
Mobius One, as the first vehicle was dubbed, was built by local welders and mechanics.
The car was stripped of all the luxuries that Western drivers take for granted.
“It had a tubular steel frame and off-the-shelf parts. It looked like a dune buggy, took 10 months to build and cost $14,000,” said Jackson.
But it worked, and that was enough to persuade him to quit his day job and move full-time to his newly formed company, Mobius Motors.
He raised a quarter of a million dollars in venture-capital funding and used some of it to recruit a team of engineers to build the second prototype, Mobius Two.
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