As a kid growing up in Kenya, Brian Arasa was always fascinated by cars — how they were built, where they were built. “All my life, I’ve been watching documentaries, watching videos on vehicles being manufactured out there,” Arasa said. “But one question that always came into my mind was, are we actually able to do this here in Kenya?” For decades, the answer to that question has simply been no. More than 90% of cars in Kenya are cheap, old internal combustion vehicles shipped in from other parts of the world, mostly Japan.  Arasa never thought he’d live to see a Kenyan-made electric car hit the market. That is, until he got hired by TAD Motors a few months ago. An electric vehicle plant under construction. Courtesy of TAD Motors “It’s really, really amazing,” Arasa, now the company’s head of marketing, said.…