Sinje Gottwald has become the first person to complete a solo, unassisted crossing of Africa on an electric motorbike.
On 15 February 2023, German Sinje Gottwald became the first person to cross the African continent on an electric motorbike, solo and unassisted. She arrived in Cape Town after 125 days, travelling from Barcelona to the tip of Africa on a trip that spanned 13,000 kilometres.
Gottwald remembers how her journeys were leisurely and unhurried, stopping whenever she saw somewhere she wanted to stay and riding without a strict schedule. “It was more like, ‘whatever challenges I get, I will get through them, and I will find a solution that will hopefully keep me moving’. It was for a very different purpose.”Getting her electric motorcycle ready, an electric motorcycle manufacturer, for a number of years as an account manager. With a dream of testing the capabilities of electric mobility, she put her own company’s product to test.
Through trial and error, Gottwald quickly found a rhythm that worked for her; riding 50km, stopping to swap out batteries and then riding another 50km before finding a spot to charge. There, in villages and cities alike, she would charge up her batteries for around three hours before heading off again.
“‘In the beginning, I had no idea, because the bike wasn’t built for this trip. I didn’t know if it would actually be okay because I put it through a lot — deep water, a lot of mud, potholes, roads that really weren’t great,” Gottwald remembers.
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