Electric mobility company Spiro is strengthening its leadership team as it prepares for another phase of expansion across Africa, appointing automotive and battery-swapping veteran Anant Badjatya as Group Chief Executive Officer. The appointment comes after the company secured a landmark $215 million equity investment to accelerate its growth.
Badjatya brings more than two decades of experience across electric mobility, energy and industrial businesses in India, the Middle East and Africa. Before joining Spiro, he was CEO of Indofast Energy, an Indian Oil and SUN Mobility joint venture, where he helped develop a battery-swapping network with more than 1,800 stations serving nearly 90,000 vehicles daily.
His experience is particularly relevant to Spiro’s business model. Battery swapping is central to the company’s strategy for making electric motorcycles practical for commercial riders, who often cannot afford long charging downtime. Rather than waiting for a battery to recharge, riders can exchange depleted batteries for charged ones at dedicated stations.
Spiro has been rapidly building this infrastructure across the continent. The company says it has deployed more than 100,000 electric motorcycles and operates more than 2,500 battery-swapping stations, with more than 30 million battery swaps completed.
The company’s expansion is also becoming increasingly pan-African. Spiro operates across markets including Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, and launched operations in Cameroon in 2026, giving it a presence in West, East and Central Africa.
Badjatya’s appointment therefore comes at an important point in the company’s development. Spiro is no longer simply trying to prove that electric motorcycles can work in African markets. It is attempting to build the infrastructure, manufacturing capacity and commercial ecosystem required to operate at continental scale.
His mandate will cover several parts of Spiro’s business, including battery swapping, vehicle leasing, logistics, energy and vehicle manufacturing. The company says his role will be to consolidate its strategic initiatives and guide execution as it enters its next stage of growth.
The leadership change follows other moves to deepen Spiro’s technical and operational capabilities. In August, the company appointed Huy Chieu as Chief Development Officer. Chieu brought nearly three decades of vehicle engineering and product-development experience from companies including General Motors, VinFast and Hero MotoCorp.
Together, the appointments suggest that Spiro is building an executive team capable of managing a much larger industrial operation. Scaling electric mobility requires more than selling motorcycles; it requires reliable batteries, swapping infrastructure, supply chains, manufacturing, financing and after-sales support.
With substantial new capital and experienced automotive leadership, Spiro is positioning itself for that challenge. Its next test will be turning rapid expansion into a sustainable electric-mobility network that can serve millions of African riders while lowering transportation costs and dependence on petrol-powered vehicles.
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