{"id":232056,"date":"2026-06-10T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=232056"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:56:24","slug":"how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=232056","title":{"rendered":"How to make transportation quieter, cleaner and cheaper | Doreen Orishaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Doreen Orishaba helped build Africa\u2019s first electric car in 2011, skeptics dismissed it as a \u201ctoy for the Western world.\u201d Now she\u2019s running dozens of electric buses across Kenya and Rwanda, moving thousands of passengers to work every day on zero-exhaust vehicles powered by near-silent engines&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/doreenorishaba\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Doreen Orishaba helped build Africa\u2019s first electric car in 2011, skeptics dismissed it as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba.jpg",1050,591,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba.jpg",1050,591,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba.jpg",1050,591,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232056-how-to-make-transportation-quieter-cleaner-and-cheaper-doreen-orishaba-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}