Freetown Project
Help us help others.
Why Freetown
Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone and the hometown of many friends the founder has from Church and other places in Reading
They passionately believes in the ability of the people of Freetown and their ability make business a successes.
Proposed plan for Freetown
The future for Turbo Electric is to based the first factories in Freetown and have local people manufacturing the vehicles ultimately for the world market.
We are talking to the Ministers in Sierra Leone to air our the plans, which includes working with the local educational institutions to train engineers and provide a career path in Turbo Electric.
There is an issue with unemployment and a lack of hands-on experience in technology and technical engineering.
The plan is for Turbo Electric to provide training schemes and work placements for people to learn and practice their skills on a business which has a good future for Freetown and Sierra Leone.
Local Innovation
Graham North, CEO/Founder of Turbo Electric, who has created all the IT and technology designs on the vehicles, and who has a long history in IT, electronic and mechanical engineering will also be working directly in Freetown to regenerate their IT market.
This will mean directly working onsite in Freetown on their local urban projects to help the people bring their projects to reality.
In The Community
The local cost of electricity is 1,000 SLL (link), which is 8pence (UK) or 10cents (US)
An example household here used about 120kWh in a month
This means the cars battery will power a house for a month when there's no electricity
Also the price of any fuel here is 8,500 SLL per litre.
Most of the cars around here will struggle to achieve 30mpg due to the road conditions,
also the way people drive here requires constant braking as there is little traffic control.
So it will cost 120,000 SLL to recharge the car from completely flat to full charge.
If this were fuel that would be the cost of 14.1 ltrs fuel (3.1 imp gallons) which would mean a range of about 100miles
In our car this would be 400miles, so about 4 times the range.
This would be like only paying 2,125 SLL per litre for your fuel
Also the African model does not need to be restricted to 8 seats so that model will have 18 seats instead
The government in Sierra Leone has already made orders, which can be used as public transport.
This is the location of the site in Waterloo.
This is completely in line with Turbo Electric's mission statement, which is: Help us help others.