- E-mobility offers options for bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and public transport vehicles to provide green transportation alternatives in the post-subsidy regime.
- Tinubu had announced plans to deploy 100 electric buses for carbon reduction and modernisation of the transportation system in Nigeria at COP28.
United Nations’ special representative for sustainable energy, Damilola Ogunbiyi, has highlighted plans for e-mobility deployment in the northeast. According to an X post yesterday by the special assistant to the president on social media, Segun Dada, Ogunbiyi met with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja to present a document on e-mobility. E-mobility, or electric mobility, described as the mobility of the future, refers to road vehicles powered by an electric motor and charged with electricity.
E-mobility offers options for both short trips (bicycles, scooters, and electric motorcycles) as well as long trips (electric public transport vehicles) to provide green transportation alternatives in the post-subsidy regime. Stakeholders and energy experts have called for more public awareness of the benefits of e-mobility as part of efforts to cushion the effects of surging inflation. During COP28 in Dubai, Tinubu announced plans to deploy 100 electric buses for carbon reduction and modernisation of the transportation system in Nigeria.
The president stated that the initiative is part of efforts to position Nigeria and Africa as the pioneering frontier of green manufacturing and industrialisation. He said the Nigeria carbon market activation plan is expected to focus on natural gas as a transition fuel, together with other renewable energy sources. A few months before Tinubu’s announcement, the Lagos government said it had taken delivery of the first set of electric buses for public transportation in the state.