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How I’m electrifying transportation in Tanzania

Technician Erasto Job assembles and fixes electric three-wheelers for TRí, a sustainable transportation company in Dar es Salaam.
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  1. Nikki Forrester

    1. Nikki Forrester is a science journalist based in Davis, West Virginia.

Erasto Job picks up a bundle of chargers from a shelf for electric bajajis at the Tri workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Erasto Job is a technician at TRí in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng for Nature

“Many people in Tanzania rely on three-wheeled vehicles because they are among the cheapest and safest modes of transportation. There are about 250,000 three-wheelers in the country and most use internal combustion engines.

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Nature 644, 298 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02463-4

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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