Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:45:51 +0000
South Africa is going trough its worst ever period of load-shedding, and it seems to be getting worse. We are only in the first week of February 2023 and already 2023 has seen more load-shedding than the whole of 2019. There has been more load-shedding in one month (January 2023 — 29 days of load-shedding) […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:31:13 +0000
Rental car companies and other fleet operators are some of the major drivers of vehicle sales around the world. This is why there has been a lot of excitement around Hertz’s deals with Tesla and Polestar, for example, as well as SIXT’s deal for 100,000 BYD cars. Just the other day, SIXT announced that it […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:35:57 +0000
After a very slow start, electric vehicle sales seem to be starting to gain some traction in South Africa. Sales of battery-electric vehicles breached the 500 units per year mark in South Africa for the first time ever in 2022. Last year, 502 BEVs were sold in South Africa, up from 218 in 2021. Audi […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:48:01 +0000
South Africa is going through its worst ever period of electricity rationing. The national utility company Eskom has been forced to implement a load-shedding program as it struggles to meet demand due to a number of reasons, including frequent breakdowns at its old coal power plants as well as the delayed completion of some of […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:12:59 +0000
Mozambique currently has a low electrification rate with only 40% of its population having access to electricity. 36% of the population has access from the grid and 4% via off-grid projects. Mozambique wants to accelerate its access to electricity projects to meet its targets of universal access to electricity by 2030. This will be backed […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:00:34 +0000
Not everyone needs a 2.5-ton speed machine that goes from zero to 100km/h in 1 second. A small vehicle that has a range of about 100 km and limited to 60 km/h could be just fine for a lot of people living in urban areas. High school kids driving themselves to school, college students, recent […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:45:06 +0000
Compared to similar markets around the world, South Africa has a small selection of electric vehicle models available for consumers to buy. This has contributed to the slow electric vehicles sales in the country. For a very long time, the only BEV that was available for consumers in South Africa to buy was the BMW […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:52:04 +0000
South African and Australian miners are realising the benefits of using renewable energy to power their mines. It not only reduces their carbon footprint, but also their costs. “The shift is all the more attractive for miners in South Africa, where power cuts have reached record levels as state power utility Eskom struggles to meet […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:15:06 +0000
In June of last year, South Africa increased the threshold for companies to produce their own electricity without a license from 1 MW to 100 MW. Generation projects will still need to obtain a grid connection permit to ensure that they meet all of the requirements for grid compliance. It was a surprising but very […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:35:22 +0000
A number of Southern African countries are in the midst of a devastating electricity crisis. Zimbabweans have been subjected to daily power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. In Zambia, load-shedding has just been increased to 12 hours a day. One of Africa’s largest power producers by installed capacity, South Africa is also […]