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Every ride-hailing platform in Nigeria is exposed to the same thing: the pump. When petrol moves, drivers absorb it, fares follow, and riders pay for a cost nobody controls. That is the problem Sonik Drive was built to remove.
The problem
On a petrol platform, fuel is the largest single cost in a driver's week and it is the one they have least control over. A price move they did not cause and cannot plan for comes straight out of their take-home. The platform stays whole; the driver does not.
Riders feel the same thing one step later, as fares chase costs upward and surge pricing turns a bad week into an expensive one.
₦900–1,100
Cost per litre of petrol, 2025
$1B+
Nigerian ride-hailing market value
20%
Annual market growth (CAGR)
Zero
EV-native operators before Sonik Drive
What we are doing about it
A 100% electric fleet cuts running costs by around 65% versus petrol. But an electric fleet that depends on somebody else's charging has simply swapped one dependency for another — so Sonik builds and runs its own solar-powered charging stations as part of the platform, not as a partnership to arrange later.
That is what makes fixed fares credible. When the input cost is stable and generated in-house, a price quoted before the trip can actually hold at the end of it — and 85% of it can go to the driver without the platform hedging against next month's pump price.
Sonik Drive is pre-launch. The platform is built, the model is defined and the company is registered and based in Abuja — but there is no fleet on the road yet and no rides completed. Everything on this site describes a plan being executed, not a service already operating, and we would rather say that than let you find out later. The funding plan sets out exactly what happens next and in what order.