MELLOWVAN

A locally made electric vehicle supporting Safe Passage delivery, maintenance, activations, and green mobility across Cape Town.

Cape Town, Western Cape

Safe Passage support vehicle

The MellowVan was purchased by SDI Trust for the Safe Passage Programme as a practical investment in local manufacturing, clean mobility, and safer urban movement.

Built in South Africa, the MellowVan gives Safe Passage a flexible electric vehicle to support work on the ground. It can be used for project logistics, route activations, public engagement, open street experiments, and collaborations with Young Urbanists and programme partners. It helps the team move through the city in a way that reflects the programme’s values: cleaner transport, local jobs, and streets designed for people.

The vehicle also supports Safe Passage’s alignment with South Africa’s Just Energy Transition priorities. It connects low carbon transport with local economic development, showing how green mobility can support real delivery, not only policy ambition.

The MellowVan was introduced during Earthshot Week as part of #RideForChange, where Safe Passage travelled Route 01 from the Cape Town CBD to Langa with Green Riders, one of the programme’s beneficiaries. The activation highlighted what Safe Passage is working to build: safer routes, stronger local economies, and green jobs connected to everyday movement.

For Safe Passage, the MellowVan is a working tool and a visible symbol of the programme’s approach. Local, electric, practical, and built to support the next phase of safer streets in South Africa.

The MellowVan was purchased by SDI Trust for the Safe Passage Programme as a practical investment in local manufacturing, clean mobility, and safer urban movement.

For Safe Passage, the MellowVan is a working tool and a visible symbol of the programme’s approach. Local, electric, practical, and built to support the next phase of safer streets in South Africa.

The MellowVan is Safe Passage’s locally made electric support vehicle, purchased by SDI Trust to help deliver safer streets, public space activations, open street experiments, and route based work across Cape Town.

Built in South Africa, it reflects the programme’s focus on clean mobility, local jobs, and practical delivery on the ground. It also supports Safe Passage’s alignment with the Just Energy Transition by showing how low carbon transport can serve communities directly.

Look out for the MellowVan roaming the streets of Cape Town, supporting safer routes, greener movement, and the next chapter of Safe Passage.

COLLABORATIONS SDI Trust, Safe Passage Programme, Young Urbanists NPC, Green Riders, MellowVans, Earthshot Week, and #RideForChange.

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Call Roland 076 451 8656

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roland@youngurbanist.co.za

NEXT STEPS Next steps include using the MellowVan to support maintenance across Safe Passage projects, developing a Young Urbanists sticker pack, and preparing the vehicle to be wrapped for the programme’s first corporate sponsor.

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