We had the opportunity to find out from the CEO of Naamsa, Mike Mabasa what the purpose of the Green Paper on SA’s new energy vehicles is all about. The new energy vehicle Green Paper policy document recently published was produced to help in defining Africa's position on new energy vehicles. Let's first define what [...]
Mike Mabasa and I had the opportunity to discuss the development of hybrid vs full battery electric vehicles in the market today. SA’s first hybrid vehicles Two specific OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) like Toyota and Mercedes, have manufactured some of the very first hybrid vehicles at scale in South Africa. Question is, with Toyota manufacturing [...]
The department of trade, industry and competition DTIC released a green paper for the advancement of new energy vehicles in South Africa. Essentially electric vehicles or electric cars. This is an integral part of the series of policy papers accompanying the 2021 budget for the department and serves as the first step into informing and [...]
On the journey to renewable solar energy using solar and driving a battery-electric car (EV), I added solar panels to my home along with purchasing my battery electric Jaguar I-Pace EV and replaced by Internal Combustion Engined car. I recently switched to off-grid solar panels and now my home currently runs off of these solar panels. [...]
Elon Musks Tesla has reached an astounding valuation of $100 billion after the electric car makers share price surged past $591.78 yesterday morning. This is the first time in history that a car maker has reached these heights in value. General Motors and Ford In fact, Tesla is now worth more than General Motors and [...]
