A motorbike taxi. Ampersand

As the Iran War has driven up fuel costs in Africa, demand for electric motorbikes has grown.

Motorbike taxis — motorcycles with room for one paying customer — are a major mode of transport on the continent. Since the Iran War began at the end of February, the cost of fueling a motorbike taxi has risen from $4.20 a day to $5.10, The Financial Times reports . An electric motorbike, by comparison, can run for around $2.30 a day.

Sales of electric motorbikes are up roughly 40 percent in Kenya in the last three months, AFP reports . “It’s arguable that [Donald] Trump will inadvertently do more to accelerate the EV transition than any other U.S. president,” Dustin Kahler, of the E-Mobility Association of Kenya, told The Financial Times.

It was long assumed Africa would shift to EVs as secondhand vehicles from Europe and Asia arrived to the continent, James Irungu Mwangi, of venture capital fund Africa Climate Ventures, told The Financial Times.…