About African Charging Alliance
African Charging Alliance is an independent, non-profit trade association and ecosystem platform committed to accelerating the deployment of reliable, scalable, and interoperable electric vehicle charging infrastructure across Africa.
Operating as an apolitical source of truth, AfCA bridges the gap between public policy and ground-level technical implementation and operation. We bring together Charge Point Operators, eMobility Service Providers, electric utilities, fleet operators, hardware OEMs, and policymakers to build a unified, sustainable charging market.
Mission
To advance a comprehensive, economically viable, and technically harmonised EV charging ecosystem across Africa through collaborative leadership, open standards, and evidence-based industry guidance.
Cross-border and cross-city corridors — Mombasa to Nairobi, Kigali to Nairobi — don't follow operator boundaries. A driver on one of these routes shouldn't need three apps and three accounts to complete a single journey. Interoperability between operators, built on open protocols like OCPI and OCPP, is what makes corridor charging work at all; fragmentation is the alternative, and it is expensive to unwind once it sets in.
Operating principles
Open access
Workshops and training are open to any qualified operator, not closed-door sessions with individual companies.
Published outputs
Deliverables are public guides and reference implementations, not company-specific recommendations.
Open call
Participants self-select against published criteria rather than being hand-picked.
Multi-party convening
We bring competitors together rather than advising one in isolation.
AfCA does not favour individual technologies or companies. Governance includes at least one independent board member, so independence is structurally visible rather than merely asserted.
