Funding
Aftrak wins a share of the £2.7m DRIVE35 Mobilise grant
The Advanced Propulsion Centre UK has named Aftrak one of sixteen automotive innovators backed through Mobilise, the SME accelerator funded by the government's £4bn DRIVE35 programme.
Micro electric tractor
Aftrak AFT-e1
8 kW from a 5.2 kWh battery you can swap in under a minute. PTO, sixteen attachments, no fuel.
Power
8 kW
Battery
5.2 kWh
Run time
~5 h
Attachments
16
Attachments
One machine does it all
A PTO and rotating handlebars mean front- and rear-loaded tooling across five task groups.
Tillage5 toolsRidger, rear tine cultivator, potato digger, mouldboard and reversible mouldboard ploughs.
Power tillage4 toolsPTO-driven. The rotary plough and power ridger work to 30 cm depth in hard soil and sod.
Transport2 toolsTrailer and sulky. Five hours of haulage on one charge.
Mowing & harvesting3 toolsCutter bar mower, flail mower and harvester, up to 120 cm working width.Malawi from the air: the array, the village it powers and the ground the tractor works.
The Aftrak system
An economy in a box
Four elements, each one funding the next. Solar charges the machine, the machine makes better ground possible, better ground raises the yield, and the yield pays for the energy.
01 · Energy
Solar microgrids
1.3 kW per module, around 7.5 kWh a day. One module charges a tractor; more modules power homes and a community.
Solar & energy →
02 · Machine
Micro electric tractor
8 kW through the PTO. Mechanisation at a scale a smallholding can own.
Aftrak AFT-e1 →
03 · Method
Improved techniques
Climate-smart methods the machine makes practical, including Tiyeni's Deep Bed Farming.
Applications →
04 · Return
Higher yields, then income
Farmers move beyond subsistence, and buy the energy that started the cycle. Then it repeats.
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Spotlights
Sites and deployments
Every Aftrak deployment in Africa, written up the same way: the site, the equipment and what it changed. Three are live or funded today.
Community siteEmisizini, Malawi · 4 modules · 1 tractorThe demonstration site: four solar modules, one community tractor, and the ground to prove both on.Read the spotlight →
Ehlekweni Full Primary SchoolEkwendeni, north of Mzuzu, Malawi · Over 400 pupils, two sessions a dayEhlekweni Full Primary School at Ekwendeni, north of Mzuzu: over 400 pupils in two daily sessions, some walking up to 15 km.Read the spotlight →
Mzamo villageMalawi · Array and tractor to followFarmers trained on the ground before anything was installed. The array and the tractor follow.Read the spotlight →
Find a distributor
GMA assembles and distributes for South Africa and the wider SADC region. Elsewhere the network is still growing — we will route your enquiry to the team and tell you what availability looks like.
Latest
Award
Winner of The Engineer Collaborate to Innovate Grand Prix 2024
Aftrak was awarded The Engineer's Collaborate to Innovate Grand Prix by unanimous decision of the judges, having also won the Energy and Environment category.
Award
Runners up in the Leicestershire Innovation Awards
Aftrak were runners up in the Innovation in Sustainability category, for combining solar microgrids and tailored tractors to empower smallholder farmers.
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Overview →Deploy Aftrak in your programme
For NGOs and programme partners. Units, training, spares and solar, with indicative programme sizes and costs.
NGOs & programmesSell and service Aftrak
For distributors and dealers. Territory model, commercial basics, training and spares support.
Distributors & dealersFund mechanisation that pays for itself
For donors and funders. Where money goes, funding tiers with real costs, and the reporting you receive.
Donors & funders