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Our story

Thousands of EVs. Almost no chargers. Here's the longer version.

Pitvolt is a marketplace: people who own EV chargers put them on the network and earn; drivers find them, charge, and pay from their phone. The first version of the product is running now - barebones on purpose - and we improve it every week. This page is who we are, how the marketplace works, and where it's going.

Who we are

Two founders. One advisor. One marketplace.

Albert Donkor
Founder & CEO · Accra

Albert Donkor

20 years across automotive and creative industries. Led PR for Ford's full EV portfolio in 2022 (Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning, E-Transit) through Ford's split into Ford Blue and Ford Model e; earlier, sales lead on Toyota UK's hybrid range, including the Prius. Founder of Rain Labs, a music company between London and Accra. At Pitvolt, the commercial and brand engine - securing the clients, partners, and investors that turn a working technical product into a sustainable business.

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Photo · coming
Founder & COO · Accra

Andrew Barnor

Founder of MS Auto Cars, shipping EVs from China to Ghana, and a solar installation business serving homes, offices, and businesses across Accra. One of Ghana's earliest EV voices online, with a 400k+ following across platforms. Has been telling people EVs were coming to Ghana since before they did. Now he's plugging them in. As COO, the operational backbone of the business - the ability to source, inspect, ship, install, and service through an existing China-Ghana EV supply chain is a competitive advantage no other Ghana CPO startup currently has.

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Joojo Dontoh
Technical Advisor · Accra

Joojo Dontoh

Software/Platform engineering leader, architect and system design enthusiast. Spent the last decade shipping infrastructure software at companies most people use without thinking about it - currently a Technical Lead Engineer inside one of the world's leading oil and energy majors, building software for the EV charging network it operates at scale. The same energy-transition arc Pitvolt is bringing to Ghana, told from the inside. Advises on the CSMS, hardware integration, and the technical architecture that makes a Ghana-native charging network possible.

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What we believe

Three principles. The expanded version.

01 - Ghana-native, not Ghana-adapted.

Most EV infrastructure software in Africa is a European platform with a country skin layered on top. Pitvolt is built the other way. Mobile Money (MoMo) is a first-class payment provider, not a webhook bolt-on. Dumsor is a system constraint we design around - sessions pause cleanly through an outage, unused pre-authorisation refunds itself, and chargers reconnect over 2G - not an edge case we apologise for. The grid we have is the grid we're building for.

02 - International by design.

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

Our proving ground. Accra. In-build.

Site Zero is our own charger on our own software - the unit we test every release on before it reaches a host's. Real Ghana conditions, MoMo payment at the curb, the live dashboard, sessions that survive dumsor. Hosted at a partner site we already trust.

The bar before we scale hosts: 90%+ uptime through dumsor windows, zero failed-payment complaints, one named driver and one named host willing to be quoted. Hosts join software that has already survived Ghana.

Roadmap · Phases 1 - 3

What runs today, what we're bolting on, what's next.

  1. In-build
    Phase 1 - Site Zero, Accra.

    Running today: one charger on the network, MoMo payments end to end, the host dashboard, the driver app. Barebones and real - every session settles on actual meter data.

  2. Q1 - Q3 2027
    Phase 2 - Hosts.

    Being bolted on now: self-serve charger onboarding, team seats, automated MoMo payouts. The first owners plug their chargers into the network - keeping 100% of their earnings for the first 60 days - along the routes EVs in Accra actually drive.

  3. Q4 2027 →
    Phase 3 - The network across Ghana.

    Next: the find-a-charger map that puts every host in front of every EV, payouts at scale, host-owned chargers across the country on one network. The same product then travels - Lagos, Dakar, Abidjan.

In dialogue with Ghana's Energy Commission on EV Charging Infrastructure Regulations.

The founding memo · #memo

The founding memo. Coming soon.

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. A lightly redacted version - budget figures and third-party advisor names stripped, everything else verbatim - is being prepared for publication here.

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