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Sales of BEVs In South Africa For First 6 Months Of 2023 Have Already Matched Last Year’s Total

CleanTechnica EVs

265,970 vehicles were sold in South Africa from January to June this year. Of these, 501 were full battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). of all the vehicles registered in the first 6 months of the year in South Africa were fully electric. That means just 0.2%

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Mercedes-Benz To Introduce The EQA, EQB, EQC, & EQS In South Africa

CleanTechnica EVs

The BMW i3 was the only fully electric vehicle available in South Africa for a very long time. Since its introduction around 2015, it has gone on to be South Africa’s all time top-selling fully electric vehicle up to now. The BMW i8 also tops the plug-in hybrid charts.

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Justus Visagie Sets Another EV Road Trip Record In South Africa, This Time In A BMW i4 M50

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Motoring journalist Justus Visagie has been doing road trips in electric vehicles in South Africa to show that fully electric cars can easily cover long distances in the country.

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Heavy Duty Electric Trucks Now Being Offered In Some African Countries

CleanTechnica EVs

Whenever I ask them why they have not yet introduced electric cars and vans from the brands they represent in the respective countries, yet these same brands have had a number of fully electric models in Europe and other markets […]

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Indeed, adopting electric vehicles will go a long way in helping to improve environmental outcomes. But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. And only 3 percent of the new vehicles sold were fully electric.