The Kiira Motors Project, a Presidential Initiative for Science and Technological Innovations, is currently in its advance stages of unveiling a new prototype vehicle, a commuter bus, the CEO Magazine can exclusively reveal.
In support of this new venture, government has, with immediate effect, set aside 100 acres of land at the Jinja Industrial Business park for the Kiira Motor Project. The land is already in the hands of the project officials.
Although details are still scanty, the CEO Magazine can also reveal that government has additionally provided land to another Chinese company, also intending to produce light commercial vehicles in Uganda.
This Ugandan designed vehiclebecomes the 3rd vehicle in a series of concept being developed by the Kiira Motors Projectpotentially for the region’sautomobile industry.
The design process
Building Wealth; Five Ugandan Entrepreneurs Democratizing Access to Investments.The CEO Magazine has obtained details revealing how designers and enginners at the Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC) have, in the past two years, been working on this third concept.
The soon to be finished vehicle seen by this Magazine is a 35 seater, solar electric powered bus designed with zero tail pipe emission and a range of 80 kilometers before recharging. It is fitted with latent range extension for real time charging, enabled by a roof mounted solar panels.
The project’s Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Mr Paul Isaac Musasizi, says the new vehicle design is made of very basic raw materials
Bus Design structure
“We have used plastics, leather, fibers and metals. The transformation process of those materials is what we are currently in charge of. Our role is to design and do the engineering and then source the materials from those that have them,
