We're building Pitvolt because Ghana has thousands of EVs and a handful of public chargers - all in Greater Accra. This page is the long form: who we are, what we believe, what we're building, and the founding memo we wrote before we wrote a single line of code.
Background in media, brand management, and high-stakes stakeholder relationships. As CEO he is the commercial and brand engine of the company - securing the clients, partners, and investors that turn a working technical product into a sustainable business.
ask@pitvolt.com →Operates AndyTrack Trade, a China-based sourcing, procurement, shipping, and inspection business with direct routes to Ghana. As COO he is the operational backbone of the business - the ability to source, inspect, ship, and warehouse hardware through an existing China–Ghana supply chain is a competitive advantage no other Ghana CPO startup currently has.
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Software engineer. Spent the last decade shipping infrastructure software at companies most people use without thinking about it. Advises on the CSMS, hardware integration, and the technical architecture that makes a Ghana-native charging network possible.
ask@pitvolt.com →Most EV infrastructure software in Africa is a European platform with a country skin layered on top. Pitvolt is built the other way. MTN MoMo is a first-class payment provider, not a webhook bolt-on. Dumsor is a system constraint we design around - solar, battery, 2G fallback - not an edge case we apologise for. The grid we have is the grid we're building for.
The category default is a 50-station press release before a single charger is in the ground. We won't do that. One station - Site Zero - gets built, instrumented, and proven. Then the next. Numbers we publish will be numbers we can show. Photos we publish will be photos we took. The story changes when there's data; until then, it's a plan, plainly stated.
Every line of the CSMS treats currency, payment provider, country, and language as first-class data. What works at a hotel in East Legon will work at a mall in Lekki, an office in Dakar, a corridor in Abidjan. We're building a Ghanaian operator first because Ghana is home - and because if it works here, the playbook travels.
Site Zero is hosted at a partner site we already trust. AC Level 2, solar + LiFePO4 battery backup, dedicated SIM. We're using it to validate the whole stack - hardware under real Ghana conditions, MoMo payment flow at the curb, the dashboard we monitor it from, and the dumsor-resilience that every other operator dodges.
Success for the first six months: 90%+ uptime through dumsor windows, zero failed-payment user complaints, one named driver and one named host willing to be quoted by name. Then we build the next one.
One AC Level 2 charger. Solar + battery. MoMo payments. Public CSMS dashboard. Six months of operating data we own.
Three to five sites along the routes EVs in Accra actually drive. First named host testimonials. First press wall pieces. First salaried hire.
Thirty sites. A driver app. A find-a-charger view. Financing structure that scales. The playbook that travels - Lagos, Dakar, Abidjan next.
In dialogue with Ghana's Energy Commission on EV Charging Infrastructure Regulations.
We wrote down everything we believe about EV charging in Ghana - the opportunity, the honest risks, the architecture, the unit economics. It's long. We mean it. The version published here is lightly redacted - budget figures and third-party advisor names are stripped. Everything else is verbatim.