Tanzania is in the middle of a genuine fuel transition. By June 2024, the number of vehicles running on CNG had risen to around 7,000 — including three-wheeled motorcycles — an increase from 1,139 in 2021/22, and some industry estimates project the number to have surpassed 15,000 vehicles by 2025.
In 2020, there were exactly two CNG filling stations in Tanzania. Both were in Dar es Salaam — one at Tazara, one at Ubungo. Together they served a small community of early-adopter drivers, most of whom had heard about CNG from a colleague and made the conversion out of desperation…
Tanzania is in the middle of a genuine fuel transition. By June 2024, the number of vehicles running on CNG had risen to around 7,000 — including three-wheeled motorcycles — an increase from 1,139 in 2021/22, and some industry estimates project the number to have surpassed 15,000 vehicles by 2025.
You accept a ride. You drive across town. Bolt takes its commission. Then you stop for fuel. And after all of that, you sit and wonder whether today was actually worth it.








