Here’s how "well" electric cars are doing in South Africa - 867 registered, and 375 sold in last 6 years - Still zero government incentives
As part of a recent parliamentary Q&A session the minister of transport, Blade Nzimande, released new statistics detailing the number of electric cars in South Africa. According to the minister, there are a total of 867 electric vehicles currently registered in the country.
Gauteng makes up nearly half of this total with 390 of the registered vehicles, while 252 electric vehicles are registered in the Western Cape. There are fewer than 100 hundred vehicles in each of the country’s seven remaining provinces – likely as a result of the concentration of infrastructure needed for this type of transportation.
However, Nzimande indicated that adoption is set to increase as public charging stations become more widely available.
It is really dismal and partly due to no incentives from government, weak charging infrastructure, and of course the infamous Eskom load shedding.
The better news is the sales have picked up (if you look at percentages from such a low baseline) and with 200 new chargers going in maybe it will pick up more. But personally, I'd say it is not even yet on many local buyers' radars and my own enquiries to VW in 2018 about getting the new e-Golf and being told it will never be imported to SA was not really heartening news.
See businesstech.co.za/news/motori…
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Gauteng makes up nearly half of this total with 390 of the registered vehicles, while 252 electric vehicles are registered in the Western Cape. There are fewer than 100 hundred vehicles in each of the country’s seven remaining provinces – likely as a result of the concentration of infrastructure needed for this type of transportation.
However, Nzimande indicated that adoption is set to increase as public charging stations become more widely available.
It is really dismal and partly due to no incentives from government, weak charging infrastructure, and of course the infamous Eskom load shedding.
The better news is the sales have picked up (if you look at percentages from such a low baseline) and with 200 new chargers going in maybe it will pick up more. But personally, I'd say it is not even yet on many local buyers' radars and my own enquiries to VW in 2018 about getting the new e-Golf and being told it will never be imported to SA was not really heartening news.
See businesstech.co.za/news/motori…
#EV #southafrica
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