Transforming Africa’s transport through electric collaboration

OX Delivers, the pioneering UK-based electric vehicle start-up, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wahu Mobility, Ghana’s leading manufacturer of durable and connected electric bikes, to explore opportunities for advancing electric mobility solutions that drive business growth, create jobs, and generate a positive sustainable impact in Ghana

Both companies share a mission to transform Africa’s fragmented and unreliable transport system, which is currently dominated by expensive, polluting vehicles. By combining OX Delivers’ purpose-built electric trucks with Wahu Mobility’s electric bikes—the first of their kind in Ghana—the partnership aims to encourage businesses and communities to switch from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric alternatives.

By leveraging their complementary strengths, the collaboration provides a strong platform to deepen market insights across Africa, expand product offerings, and unlock new avenues for funding and sustainable growth.

Valerie Labi, co-founder & CEO of Wahu, commented, “We’re delighted to partner with OX Delivers to advance clean, accessible transport solutions across West Africa. Their deep experience in transport-as-a-service, particularly in Rwanda, offers invaluable insight that will help shape future local initiatives to empower both businesses and communities in the future. We’re keen to see how OX Delivers can offer us a route to opening up new revenue streams, for example using EVs in agriculture.”

OX Delivers is breaking down trade barriers and driving economic transformation in the Global South with its complete transport and trade solution. Supported by purpose-built technology, the ecosystem provides entrepreneurs with end-to-end infrastructure to trade reliably and prosper. Using the service, customers can transport goods faster, safer, and more efficiently, significantly increasing financial returns. Previously, transporting goods to market took days via bus, bicycle, or on foot. Today, customers can book space on the truck and have their goods delivered in just a few hours, boosting productivity and sales.

Since launching its pilot operation in Rwanda in 2021, OX has supported more than 5,000 customers, many of them smallholder farmers and traders, with 80% of orders coming from repeat clients.

Wahu Mobility brings scalable manufacturing capacity and a base of connected electric bikes tailored for Africa’s unique road and economic conditions. Its flagship product, the Wahu e-bike, is locally designed and produced. To ensure financial accessibility for last-mile delivery riders, the company offers a flexible "ride-to-own" payment model, empowering gig workers to become resilient mobility entrepreneurs.

Through this MOU, OX Delivers and Wahu Mobility will continue scaling their businesses across Africa, targeting the US$280bn goods transport industry and three billion people in the Global South without access to affordable, sustainable transport.