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Audi South Africa Conducts Electric Vehicle Safety Training For South African First Responders

June 1, 2022 admin africa, Audi, clean transport, Electric vehicles, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:45:32 +0000

Having taken part in several round table sessions on electric mobility involving a wide cross section of stakeholders in quite a number of African countries, I have noticed that some of the key concerns that keep coming up in these forums are on the lack of trained technicians and first responders in the various countries. […]

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Ford Switches On 13.5MW Solar Carport To Power 35% Of SA Factory

May 17, 2022 admin clean power, ford, Solar, Solar energy, Solar power, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 16:35:37 +0000

Ford South Africa’s assembly plant is now generating 35% of its electricity needs onsite from a newly commissioned 13.5 MW solar carport system. Through a long term Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica, Ford will offset a significant amount of CO2 from the electricity it consumes from South Africa’s predominantly coal-powered grid. According to an announcement […]

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Right-Hand-Drive Electric Vehicle Markets — Projections

February 26, 2022 admin Australia, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev forecasts, ev sales, India, indonesia, Japan, market research, NEW ZEALAND, research, South Africa, uk

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:30:47 +0000

Although the current EV market appears to concentrate on the left-hand-drive markets of the USA, Europe and China, a significant number of earth’s citizens live in right-hand-drive markets. Below is a summary of right-hand-drive EV markets — projections from Rethink Energy’s lead analyst, Peter White. Australia Up to the start of 2021 (12 months ago), […]

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Check Out This New Electric Rickshaw Delivery Van Concept From Sweden

February 16, 2022 admin clean motion, clean transport, Electric vehicles, revolt, rickshaw, South Africa, tuk tuk

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:40:42 +0000

Tuk-tuk, moto rickshaw, or light delivery van – call it what you will, it’s pretty awesome!

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The BMW iX Lands With A Bang In South Africa’s Growing Electric Vehicle Market

February 5, 2022 admin BMW, bmw i3, bmw ix, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, mini cooper se, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:16:49 +0000

Sales of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in South Africa have been quite slow over the years. The table below shows EV sales over the past 6 years: The slow sales of BEVs can be attributed to several reasons, including: A limited number of models available in South Africa: For along time, there was essentially just one […]

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Blue Nova Launches The MegaBoy 1 MWh Storage Product

February 22, 2020 admin batteries, battery energy storage systems (bess), blue nova, China, clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, energy security, Energy Storage, energy storage system, environmental management system, grid, grid storage, Johannesburg, lifeypo4, lithium iron yttrium phosphate, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, microgrids, Off The Grid, Smart Grid, Solar energy, South Africa, stock exchange, storage, the megaboy 1 mwh storage product

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 04:57:56 +0000

Blue Nova Energy, a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Listed Reunert Group, looks to be ramping up nicely and has just launched the MegaBoy

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New South African Lithium-Ion Cell Mega-Factory, Plans For 32 GWh/Year By 2028

February 9, 2020 admin batteries, battery materials, cobalt, Energy Storage, eskom, graphite, grid, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, manganese, Manufacturing, megamillion, mineral resources, nickel, nickel manganese cobalt batteries, nmc batteries, South Africa, southern africa, uyilo emobility programme

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:34:00 +0000

The battery storage market in South Africa is expected to grow significantly going forward as companies and homes look to cushion themselves from ongoing electricity blackouts. Eskom, the stated-owned utility company, has been battling to keep the lights on during peak demand hours. Electricity blackouts are expected for at least another 18 months according to some reports

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Electric Deliveries Are Spreading Across Africa, Botswana Startup MyFoodness Adopts Electric Scooters On Its Routes

February 2, 2020 admin africa, botswana, clean transport, consumer technology, electric scooters, Electric vehicles, gaborone, green economy, Kenya, myfoodness, South Africa, yadea

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 01:47:05 +0000

Slowly but surely, we are getting there. We recently shared Kenyan startup GreenSpoon’s move to embrace electric delivery vans and ABInBev’s South African Breweries’ addition of the Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter to its fleet. Well, now, on our travels to Botswana, we came across MyFoodness, which has been using electric scooters on its delivery routes since

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Botswana-Based Accite Holdings Brings Plant-Based Meat Revolution To Africa With Beyond Meat

January 22, 2020 admin africa’s nutrition, Agriculture, beyond burger, botswana, centre for sustainable systems, gaborone botswana, HEALTH, infinite foods, plant-based protein, South Africa, sub-saharan africa, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:40:35 +0000

Infinite Foods, a subsidiary of Botswana-based Accite Holdings, plans to tackle Africa’s nutrition problem in a more sustainable way by promoting plant-based food products across Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa’s expanding population and development will see many move into middle income status and with it increase their meat and dairy intake. Increased meat and dairy intake on a global scale will put more strain on the Earth’s resources which will struggle to sustain the projected surge in demand for red meat and milk using an animal-based system, which is inefficient

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Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer: “What is urgently needed is more power from somewhere”

December 20, 2019 admin batteries, blackouts, clean power, Coal, Energy Storage, eskom, Fossil Fuels, grid, loadshedding, nuclear energy, Solar energy, South Africa, south africa blackouts, south africa clean energy, south africa renewable energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:23:40 +0000

Eskom, a South African electric company, is having some serious issues. Arrests have been made over fraud involving millions of dollars. The BBC reports that Eskom has been dealing with mismanagement and corruption scandals that have led to its current serious financial issues. Last week, South Africa experienced the largest power outage in over a decade