Pitvolt
Our story

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

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.

Who we are

Two founders. One advisor. One charger. The long game.

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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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 engineer. 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 - solar, battery, 2G fallback - not an edge case we apologise for. The grid we have is the grid we're building for.

02 - Bootstrap-honest.

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.

03 - 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

The first one. Accra. In-build.

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.

Roadmap · Phases 1 - 3

From one site to a corridor to a CPO.

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

    One AC Level 2 charger. Solar + battery. MoMo payments. Public CSMS dashboard. Six months of operating data we own.

  2. Q1 - Q3 2027
    Phase 2 - The Accra corridor.

    Three to five sites along the routes EVs in Accra actually drive. First named host testimonials. First press wall pieces. First salaried hire.

  3. Q4 2027 →
    Phase 3 - CPO across Ghana.

    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.

The founding memo · #memo

Read the founding memo.

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.

WrittenApril 2026
Length~9,400 words
StatusLightly redacted
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