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Michelow, Economic Officer and Mr.Ubaldo Nieves &#8211; Small Grants Officer at US Embassy. Apart  from looking out for partnership opportunities  and synergies between US companies and KMC  the officials also said they would link  KMC to  institutions for continuous training  of staff  and student exchanges  for students in universities who are interested to work in the automotive industry in the future .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kiira Vehicle Plant phase one  construction works has been undertaken  by the UPDF under NEC  and is at 98% completion. The  plant has capacity to produce 22 buses a day and 5,000 a year . Some of the Kiira Motors products now on the market include the much famed Kayoola EVs \u2013 the fully electric buses and the Kayoola Diesel Coaches (KDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D<em><strong>o you want to buy a locally made durable bus (both electric and diesel ) please contact kiira motors Corporation at their home in Ntinda, Kampala Uganda.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Telephone contact ;0783039613<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two American officials from the US Embassy in Kampala have visited the Kiira Motors Vehicle plant and pledged to link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/us-off.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5018,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/private-sector-foundation-uganda-to-partner-with-kiira-motors-to-skill-ugandans-for-the-automotive-industry\/","url_meta":{"origin":5395,"position":0},"title":"PRIVATE SECTOR FOUNDATION UGANDA TO PARTNER WITH KIIRA MOTORS TO SKILL UGANDANS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY","author":"MOSES SSERWANGA","date":"January 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Private Sector Foundation Uganda ,(PSFU) will partner with Uganda\u2019s automakers Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC) to facilitate linkages for value addition and parts localization in Uganda\u2019s nascent automotive industry , the organization\u2019s top boss -Mr. Stephen Asiimwe has stated . 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