Petrol and South Africa

South Africans Want Electric Vehicles — It’s Time For More Automakers To Step Up

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 26, 2022

South Africa doesn’t have the perfect environment to incentivize global automakers to rush to introduce more electric vehicles. Petrol and diesel vehicles imported from the EU into South Africa have a customs duty of 18%, while for electric vehicles it is 25%. It is […].

South Africa

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Toyota Fortuner gets mild hybrid tech, but will it come to India? Check details

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

One of the latest developments in the hybrid vehicle segment is the introduction of the Toyota Fortuner MHEV in South Africa. This hybrid SUV is expected to go on sale in other markets in the coming months, following its launch in South Africa.

India

India Toyota South Africa Hybrid

Nissan to test African demand for its e-Power hybrid vehicle – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

But, like in many countries globally, electric vehicles (EVs) are currently priced out of the reach of most domestic consumers, while some countries in Africa, including South Africa, struggle with power outages and logjams on railways and at ports, making it difficult for global executives to invest in EVs on the continent.

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Honda takes ‘Made-in-India’ Elevate SUV to its home bastion of Japan

Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

litre naturally aspirated petrol engine. litre naturally aspirated petrol engine. litre naturally aspirated petrol engine. HCIL has been exporting models in its line-up to left-hand drive markets in Turkey, Mexico and the Middle East and right-hand drive markets in Nepal, Bhutan, South Africa and SADC countries.

India

India Japan Honda SUV

Amaze returns with 2-star safety rating at Global NCAP, Honda reacts

Baua Electric

APRIL 23, 2024

The carmaker issued a statement that read, “The South Africa spec second Generation Amaze has already been tested as 4 star by GNCAP in 2019. petrol and a 1.5 While the petrol engine delivers 89 bhp of power, the diesel unit pushes out 98 bhp of power. Honda Cars reacted to the latest safety rating of the Amaze sedan.

Honda

Honda Global South Africa 2019

Maruti Suzuki Jimny available with up to ?1.50 lakh discounts

Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Besides selling it in India, Maruti Suzuki exports the made-in-India SUV to markets like South Africa and Indonesia as well. litre naturally aspirated petrol engine. Watch: Maruti Suzuki Jimny SUV: First Drive Review The Maruti Suzuki Jimny comes loaded with a host of features and draws power from a 1.5-litre

Suzuki

Suzuki Available South Africa Indonesia

Volkswagen Amarok PHEV coming as soon as 2025

EV Central

DECEMBER 11, 2022

If you can’t wait for the 2027 Volkswagen Amarok battery electric ute then maybe the petrol-electric version potentially due as soon as 2025 will do. The second-generation Amarok arrives in Australia from April with orthodox Ford turbo-diesel and turbo-petrol powertrains. For the petrol guys – for me – it’s enough.”.

PHEV

PHEV Petrol Australia South Africa

Bounce Infinity Raises $20M in Funding from Existing Investors

Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 31, 2023

The company ships to South Africa, Nepal, Kuwait, South America, and Sri Lanka. The company could offer customers the option of renting batteries that charge from the grid, similar to how they refuel petrol-powered scooters. According to sources, three new models will be launched this year.

Infinity

Infinity Sri Lanka South Africa Kuwait

Study shows gasoline pre-blending in ethanol production could cut energy requirements of separation by 17-40%

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. The most prevalent use of bioethanol is not as a fuel in its pure form but rather as an additive to petrol.

Gasoline

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China’s JAC plans Aussie push with EV ute benchmarked against Rivian R1T

EV Central

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In export markets that include Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, there are various naming schemes, but broadly speaking SUVs are dubbed JS and passenger cars are dubbed J with a number to denote vehicle size. litre turbo-petrol engine. 2023 JAC JS6 SUV. The most recently launched model globally is the JS6, a 4.6m

Australia

Australia SUV South Africa F-150

Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

Shell and Professor Gordon Murray go back way further; Shell sponsored the first car and engine Professor Gordon Murray ever built, in South Africa, when he was just 19. Why a petrol car? 25 project incorporated specially formulated, low viscosity engine oil, designed by the Shell Lubricants Technology Team.

Cars

Cars South Africa Personal MPG

Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Although such vehicles are more environmentally friendly than their petrol counterparts, there is a greener option that many governments seem to have overlooked: the electric bicycle. Some 800,000 are also sold each year in South East Asia, he says, where they replace the noisy and smelly petrol scooters that are ubiquitous in many places.

Transportation

Transportation Sri Lanka 2009 2008

Ford investing $72M to increase production capacity at Chennai Engine Plant

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2011

Diesel engines have also been exported to South Africa since 2008 and Ford plans to export India-built petrol and diesel powertrains to more markets in the near future. Since June 2010, more than 4,000 India-built 1.4L gasoline engines have been exported to Thailand every month.

Ford

Ford Engine South Africa Production

EV Driven

South Africans Want Electric Vehicles — It’s Time For More Automakers To Step Up

Toyota Fortuner gets mild hybrid tech, but will it come to India? Check details

Nissan to test African demand for its e-Power hybrid vehicle – ET Auto

Honda takes ‘Made-in-India’ Elevate SUV to its home bastion of Japan

Amaze returns with 2-star safety rating at Global NCAP, Honda reacts

Maruti Suzuki Jimny available with up to ?1.50 lakh discounts

Volkswagen Amarok PHEV coming as soon as 2025

Bounce Infinity Raises $20M in Funding from Existing Investors

Study shows gasoline pre-blending in ethanol production could cut energy requirements of separation by 17-40%

China’s JAC plans Aussie push with EV ute benchmarked against Rivian R1T

Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Ford investing $72M to increase production capacity at Chennai Engine Plant

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