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new-car market. For
maximum benefit, the
electricity itself has to
be clean—and Kenya
gets two-thirds of
its electricity from
renewables. “If we
go electric, we are
protecting the entire
world,” says Esther
Wairimu, an engineer
at Opibus, the com-
pany that converted
the Land Cruiser.A Toyota Land
Cruiser retooled with
an electric motor is
taken for a test-drive
at a wind farm in
Kenya. Transportation
accounts for nearly a
quarter of all carbon
emissions from fossil
fuels, but the electric-
vehicle revolution is
accelerating: By 2040
EVs are expected
to dominate the