Bike Sharing Comes to El Gouna

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El Gouna and CIB have launched the first electric bike-sharing system in Africa, and largest in the Middle East. The initial phase comprises of 100 bikes offering a convenient, environmentally conscious means of transportation for residents and visitors. This coincided with the Orascom Development PSA women's World Championship, prominent international and local squash players had the first e-bike ride, signaling the official launch of the project.


This bike-sharing system is now set up and operational in El Gouna. The network is comprised of five bike stations: Downtown, Club House, G Space, Marina and Fanadir. Users can pick up a bike at any station and return it to the same station or any another station. Payment is either by credit card at the station or by utilizing the Baddelonline app. This app can be downloaded online for Android smart phones on the PlayStore and on IOS on the Appstore. As for bike rental prices, the charge is 40 EGP an hour.



All components of this system were developed and created by young Egyptian talent. The bikes, the monitoring and control hardware attached to each bike, the stations and the software behind the billing and operations. A group of around 30 engineers, designers, software developers formed the nascent company named Baddel (Arabic for Pedal) and have installed working prototypes in Cairo, mainly in gated compounds. 

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