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Zambia Proposes Removing Customs Duty on Battery-Electric Vehicles & Charging Systems

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Here is some good news from Zambia. Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, Zambia’s Minister of Finance and National Planning, announced that, “… to continue promoting the usage of clean energy as well as supporting the green economy and climate change mitigation, I propose the following measures: a) Remove customs duty on […]

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BYD Partners With Pilatus Motors To Launch Several Models In Zambia!

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It’s good news for Zambia, as BYD has just launched in the country, giving Zambians an opportunity to buy some of the latest electric vehicles from one of the world’s largest electric vehicle firms. continued] The post BYD Partners With Pilatus Motors To Launch Several Models In Zambia! It seems like we get news.

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Zambia Has A New President Who Could Help Accelerate The World’s Transition To Sustainable Energy

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Having followed the development in Zambia since I attended elementary school in the country from 1981 to 1982, there is finally some good news that resonates with me in the context of the global EV revolution and the world’s transition to sustainable energy generation and consumption.

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US convenes Minerals Security Partnership meeting

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

First announced in June 2022, the MSP is a new multilateral initiative to bolster critical mineral supply chains essential for the clean energy transition. Additional minerals-rich countries in attendance included Argentina, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Africa Continental Free Trade Area, the largest trading bloc globally, provides a compelling case for the Democratic Republic of Congo to leverage its and Africa’s abundant mineral and clean energy resources to become a growth pole of the global clean energy transition and inclusive resilient development that leaves no one behind.

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We Need More Vehicles Like The Ford F150 Lightning: An African Perspective

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JUNE 14, 2021

In Southern Africa, people in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe experience regular and in some instances prolonged outages as the power companies in the respective countries fail to […]. I spend most of my time in East and Southern Africa.

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Zambia’s ZESCO Declares 1,000 MW Surplus in Power Generation — Is It Now Time To Accelerate EV Adoption?

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JULY 21, 2022

Zambia’s vertically integrated electricity utility, ZESCO Limited, which generates, transmits, distributes, and supplies electricity in Zambia, has declared that the country now has a surplus generation capacity of approximately 1000 MW.

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Elon Musk provides critical context on hotly-debated “emerald mine” story

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MAY 7, 2023

In a 2014 interview with Forbes , Musk noted that “This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia.” As noted by Musk in his recent post, he actually believed that it was true for some time because his father told him that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia.

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BYD’s Sealion 07 EV Comes to Norway

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

While more exotic locations have been getting more of the attention lately (like Guatemala, Paraguay, Chile, Kenya, Zambia, and Pakistan), that also includes offering more models in more European countries. BYD continues to expand its electric vehicle offerings around the world. The news this week is that BYD is now.

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Affordable Electric Cars Like BYD Seagull & Wuling Bingo Could Be Big Hit In Africa, Used Car Imports Imply

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

Zimbabwe’s national statistics agency, Zimstat, recently released its Transport Statistics Report for the 2nd Quarter of 2023. The report says as of June 30, 2023, light motor vehicles (up to 2,300 kg) accounted for 76.5% of the 1,583,700 registered vehicles in the country.

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Zambia’s President Met With BYD & CATL On A Recent State Visit To China

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema recently returned from a state visit to China. During that visit, he met with BYD and CATL, which are some of the leading players globally in the electric vehicle and stationary storage ecosystem. In a post on X, President Hichilema said, “We have the natural resources, they have the technology.

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Not The End Of The World — Africa Moving Towards Decarbonisation

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JULY 11, 2023

Dr Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data asserts that the rapidity of change will enable us to avoid the worst of the climate catastrophe that is currently building. In a recent Fully Charged podcast, she reiterated what others have said: eating a plant-based diet, using renewable energy, having no car (or, if necessary, an electric […]

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Could The Transition To Electric Mobility On The African Continent Support Development Of Local Battery Manufacturing?

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MARCH 8, 2023

The transition to electric mobility presents a major opportunity for the African continent to leapfrog into the age of electric mobility, allowing most of the continent’s population to bypass the ICE age. Africa’s low motorization rates compared to other parts of the world makes this highly probable.

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Zambia Proposes Removing Customs Duty on Battery-Electric Vehicles & Charging Systems

BYD Partners With Pilatus Motors To Launch Several Models In Zambia!

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Zambia Has A New President Who Could Help Accelerate The World’s Transition To Sustainable Energy

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

We Need More Vehicles Like The Ford F150 Lightning: An African Perspective

Zambia’s ZESCO Declares 1,000 MW Surplus in Power Generation — Is It Now Time To Accelerate EV Adoption?

Elon Musk provides critical context on hotly-debated “emerald mine” story

BYD’s Sealion 07 EV Comes to Norway

Affordable Electric Cars Like BYD Seagull & Wuling Bingo Could Be Big Hit In Africa, Used Car Imports Imply

Zambia’s President Met With BYD & CATL On A Recent State Visit To China

Not The End Of The World — Africa Moving Towards Decarbonisation

Could The Transition To Electric Mobility On The African Continent Support Development Of Local Battery Manufacturing?

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