E-bike hire · Air-quality data · Eldoret, Kenya

Accelerating sustainable mobility across Africa.

Hire an e-bike by the hour at a Giat centre, with no ownership cost and no long-term commitment. Every centre also measures the air you breathe, in real time.

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Giat Mobility bikes lined up outside the Talai hire centre
Live since July 2024Talai Centre, Moi University
4,800+rides completed
90,000+kilometres ridden
1.5 tCO₂ emissions avoided
17bikes actively in use
6direct jobs created
Our mission

Speeding up the shift to clean, affordable mobility in Africa.

Africa's cities are growing faster than their transport systems can clean up after them. Giat Mobility exists to close that gap by making sustainable mobility affordable, data-informed, and open to everyone, not only those who can afford to own it.

19,000+Kenyans die every year from air pollution, 8,000 of them in Nairobi.
1.5M+boda bodas on Kenyan roads, each emitting about 0.5 kg of CO₂ per km.
KES 140K+to own an e-bike today, out of reach for most commuters.
The Giat Mobility logo painted on the doors of a hire centre

Sustainability first

Every product we build must cut emissions, not just move people.

Data-informed cities

We pair mobility with environmental sensing so communities can see the air they breathe.

Access over ownership

Hire instead of buying, so clean transport stays affordable for students and daily commuters.

E-bike hire

Affordable e-bike hire, by the hour.

Each Giat mobility centre hosts a fleet of e-bikes and standard bikes for short-term hire. Walk up, ride, return. It works like a matatu stage, but for clean two-wheelers.

70 kmreal-world range
40 km/htop speed
KES 120/hre-bike hire
KES 20to fully charge

Standard bikes from KES 80/hr. Prices flex with demand: a little higher at town centres and university gates during peak hours, lower on quiet routes.

A Giat Bikes hire point at a shop in Talai Close-up of a Giat e-bike's handlebar display

  1. Visit a Giat centre

    Our first centre is live at Talai Centre, Moi University, in Eldoret.

  2. Get onboarded

    A centre manager signs you up in minutes on the Giat Bike Hire app.

  3. Ride and return

    Pay by the hour. Bring the bike back to the centre when you're done.

Gcheck air quality

Every hire centre is also an air-quality sensor.

Our Gcheck devices track pollution in real time, giving communities, researchers, and county governments environmental data that simply doesn't exist today in most African cities.

PM2.5 Carbon monoxide (CO) GPS location Real-time over cellular

Researchers

Climate and air-quality data for science.

Businesses

Environmental context for your operations.

Regulators

Ground-truth data for policy decisions.

Gcheck version 2 circuit board with GPS antenna
Gcheck v2: a single board with GPS and cellular built in.
Gcheck version 1 sensor boards
Gcheck v1: proved the sensing and logging concept.
Designed and built in Eldoret.Custom hardware, from the first prototype to a connected, deployable sensor.
Technology

Hardware and software, built in‑house.

From retrofitting e-bikes to tracking every ride live, we build the whole stack ourselves, and test it on the roads we serve.

The Giat Mobility Tracking Center showing a bike's live location on a map near Eldoret
Software

Giat Management System

A live view of every bike, its speed and location, with bike management, finances, and reporting in one dashboard.

Giat e-bike prototype
Hardware

The Giat e-bike

A standard frame retrofitted with an electric hub motor, controller, and battery pack. Our prototype has been road-tested for more than 1,225 km in Eldoret.

Bikes Yard screen listing available bikes at Chebarus
Giat Bike Hire welcome screen
Centre manager dashboard with fleet and earnings
Mobile

Giat Centre Managers app

The app our centre managers use every day: check bike status and location at a glance, onboard riders through Giat Bike Hire, and track daily and weekly earnings.

Our approach

One mission, three horizons.

Giat Mobility is built to grow with Africa's mobility needs: starting on two wheels, and ending in the air.

  1. Now

    Ground: e-bike hire and air data

    Affordable e-bike hire centres paired with Gcheck air-quality sensors, live at Talai Centre, Moi University.

  2. Next

    Network: multi‑modal e‑mobility

    More mobility centres across university towns and cities, e-scooters and light EVs, and a growing environmental data network.

  3. Future

    Air: eVTOL flying mobility

    Cargo and medical drones first, then electric vertical take-off craft for rapid intra-city hops, taking clean mobility off the roads entirely.

Our team

The people building it.

Isaac Masinde

Co-Founder, Team Lead and Tech Lead. Graduate Mechanical Engineer.

Danson Katembo

Co-Founder, Operations and Finance Lead. Graduate Mechanical Engineer.

Prof. Zachary Siagi

Advisor. Energy and climate expert, Associate Professor at Moi University.

Get in touch

Clean rides. Clear air. Give it a try.

Want to hire a bike, host a Giat centre, subscribe to Gcheck data, or invest in the network? Call or message us. We'd love to hear from you.

WhatsApp us Call +254 703 206 442
Visit usTalai Centre, Moi University
Eldoret, Kenya
Call or WhatsApp+254 703 206 442
Partner with us
  • Universities and towns hosting a centre
  • Researchers and counties needing air data
  • Investors and climate funders