South Africa’s manufacturing sector needs to start producing and selling more electric vehicles , or risk losing out on billions of rands in exports, says the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa .
Mabasa said that the European Union, with exports of R129.7 billion, or 64.3% of the total export value of R201.7 billion, was South Africa’s main export region for cars. By 2030, Naamsa expects 40% of all vehicle sales in Europe to be EVs.“It is clear that we cannot ignore EVs if we want to continue doing business with Europe.
“The reality is that the world is changing to EVs, and fast, and we need to embrace that change,” said Mabasa.The first pillar of the roadmap is to increase domestic demand for EVs by importing more of these vehicles to familiarise people with the new technology, said Mabasa. Affordability is a huge issue, with Mabasa noting that it currently it costs more than R600,000 for the cheapest available EV. As a result, the association is looking to source less expensive EVs from across the globe, decrease import duties, and push public transport to become electric.
“There is a need for more fast chargers that can charge an EV in 30 minutes or less. Facilities for a quick battery change should also be made available.”
While the whole world is facing loadshedding thanks to 'renewable power' advocates? Not the best idea....
..and charge these electric cars with what?
Damn right
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