Agilitee Emerges the Front Runner in the Electric Vehicle Advancement Across Africa

Africa’s leading electric vehicles manufacturer Agilitee has been pushing for the adoption of electric vehicles in Africa for over 5 years now. Agilitee was founded in 2018 and recently celebrated its five years of existence in business.

The EV Giant has passed the stage of being a startup into a fully-fledged EV Maker. Agilitee is the first electric vehicles manufacturer in Africa and the first black owned electric vehicles manufacturer in the world.

The company started from the grassroots and faced a lot of pushback in its home country of South Africa, where there are still elements of apartheid systems that are against black industrialists who want to go into uncharted territories. Despite all the odds stacked up against the EV leader, the company has now rolled out its vehicles in five of the nine provinces of South Africa and is going into their sixth over this weekend.

Agilitee vehicles are currently on the roads in Western Cape, Gauteng, Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. Agilitee plans to be in all provinces in South Africa by the end of this month of December 2023.

The company became a public company last year and issued a total of 1 billion shares, which are founders shares, and the founder has donated over 100 million of them to over 1000 people in Africa.

Agilitee is still working on getting its shares listed on the stock market and is currently raising capital to fund its growth plans. Agilitee plans to roll out 50 000 electric scooters in 2024 throughout targeted regions in Africa.

The Agilitee story is proof that a good measure of patience, persistence, commitment, and the spirit of not giving are vital to make it and that the new age has a chance to succeed in chartering new industries and innovating beyond borders if they are willing to fight for their dreams in this unbalanced society in which we live.

Agilitee CEO Dr Mandla Lamba stated, ‘The journey has been really hard, and it didn’t have to be. That is why it pains my heart to see that the South Africa democracy is not real. In South Africa , a black owned company can not become the first without a fight. It is like we are back to the era of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, where they had to fight for equal rights because it was a necessity to treat all South Africans equally.

If you are a black business in South Africa, you are only allowed to prosper if you are in an industry where white people have already mastered because in order to build your company, you would have to buy raw materials and so forth from them in order to successfully build your business.

If it wasn’t for the love and support we received in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda, I doubt Agilitee would have survived. We got enough support from these countries until we were able to roll out in South Africa, and now we are planning a continental rollout in 2024 because of these amazing countries that supported us.

Being the first in a country that still has oppressive tendencies to black people came with a lot of sacrifices, and we knew if we failed those youngsters who are watching us and waiting to see us succeed in order for them to try their own dreams we would have let down the entire generation, that’s why we had to fight.

Seeing Agilitee doing this in South Africa feels so amazing, and I am grateful to God that we didn’t give up. Now, we are ready to usher the whole continent into the green society by the grace of God.

Agilitee recently unveiled Agilitee LoadMo, a new premium three wheeler that the company plans to release in the first quarter of 2024. The company has three other new models that it plans to introduce this month.