{"id":209627,"date":"2025-10-12T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-chinas-mojaev-to-build-electric-vehicle-plant-in-athi-river\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:58:49","slug":"kenya-chinas-mojaev-to-build-electric-vehicle-plant-in-athi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-chinas-mojaev-to-build-electric-vehicle-plant-in-athi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: China&#8217;s Mojaev to Build Electric Vehicle Plant in Athi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer MojaEV has unveiled plans to set up a local EV assembly and manufacturing plant in Athi River, marking a major boost to Kenya&#8217;s fast-growing e-mobility sector.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The company said it is in the final stages of approvals and site preparations, with construction expected to begin in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;This facility will be a major milestone in Kenya&#8217;s journey toward clean mobility and industrial growth,&#8221; said Erick Lumallas, Assistant to the CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer MojaEV has unveiled plans to set up a local EV assembly and manufacturing plant in Athi River, marking a major boost to Kenya&#8217;s fast-growing e-mobility sector. The company said it is in the final stages of approvals and site preparations, with construction expected to begin in early 2026. &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,24146,6935,9889,9416,4688,430,52555,257,8489,7263,254,7765],"class_list":["post-209627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athi","tag-build","tag-chinas","tag-electric","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mojaev","tag-news","tag-plant","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}