CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I grew up in Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa that relies on imports for all its petrol and diesel requirements. From about the year 2000 or so, I remember there being periodic petrol queues every now and then. Families could spend all day and night, and at times, several days queuing for petrol […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I was born in Mutare, a beautiful small border town in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Mutare is home to one of Zimbabwe’s motor vehicle assembly plants, Quest Motor Corporation. Quest Motors is also the official dealer for BMW in Zimbabwe. I used to like BMW a lot when I was growing up. Being the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

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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CleanTechnica EVs

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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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Since then, President William Ruto’s government has reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment to transition to 100% clean energy by 2030. In last year’s elections in Kenya, electric mobility, utility-scale battery storage, energy efficiency, and green hydrogen featured prominently in election manifestos. The elections were held on the 9th of August 2022.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 28, 2021

Asambe already has 3rd party last-mile delivery agreements with: FedEx, Zimbabwe (parcel deliveries) Baines Avenue Pharmacy, Zimbabwe (medical supplies) Munch, Zimbabwe (food delivery) UberEats, South Africa (food delivery) Asambe is actively seeking […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 9, 2022

In Zimbabwe for example, official Reserve Bank figures show that remittances surged from $1 billion in 2020 to $1.4 Remittances are the largest source of capital inflows into low and middle-income countries. billion […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Growing up in the small border town of Mutare in Zimbabwe, I used to be fascinated by the dairy milk delivery system around the town. I also used to look forward to the weekend. This was because the ice cream man only came around our neighborhood on weekends. He would be on his 3-wheeled bicycle […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Frank Sinatra, in his iconic song New York, New York, said “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere, it’s up to you, New York, New York.” In October 2009, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys released their smash hit “Empire State of mind” where Jay-Z says he feels like the new Sinatra because “Since […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Electric vehicles represent a $7 trillion market opportunity between today and 2030, and $46 trillion between today and 2050, according to the new report, “ The Cost of Producing Battery Precursors in the DRC ”, launched at the DRC-Africa Business Forum 2021. —Kwasi Ampofo, lead author of the report and BNEF’s head of metals and mining.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 1, 2022

Which one comes first? Electric cars or the charging stations? Players who want to roll out charging infrastructure would want to see a critical mass of EVs before investing heavily in charging infrastructure, while on the other hand, range-anxious consumers would want the assurance of a charging network.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 6, 2023

One of my favorite musicians is the legendary Chimurenga music icon Thomas Mapfumo, from Zimbabwe. Due to the heated political environment in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s (it still is, you can say), Thomas Mapfumo moved to the US. Although he had traveled to perform in the US several times before settling there, I assume […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 12, 2023

My daughters also like to ask me hard questions about why we don’t have a king and queen in Zimbabwe and princesses like in the books and movies on TV and why other countries have kings and queens. […]. My four-year-old daughter loves movies and books about princesses. She likes to dress up like a princess.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

At that time, Zimbabwe was going through an extensive power rationing program as the utility was battling to meet demand. I used to work in the solar industry, so it’s something that is close to my heart. I got into the commercial and industrial solar industry (C&I) in 2015. This was due to several reasons […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

In the early 1990s, one of my favorite shows on TV in Zimbabwe was a 30-minute sports highlights program called Gillette World Sport Special. My favorite segments of the show were the rally highlights, where my favorite driver was Carlos Sainz, the Formula one segment where I looked forward to watching the Williams Team, and […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Fleet operators constitute the bulk of brand new motor vehicle purchases in a lot of markets on the continent. These replacements are generally based on the vehicles covering a certain mileage or having been in service […]. They also represent an essential customer segment — repeat customers!

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As African countries join the electric vehicle revolution, fleet operators and mass transit services represent some of the low-hanging fruit. These are key segments that are ripe for electrification. A lot of operators in these industries have fixed routes that make it easy to select EVs to fit their specific needs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 7, 2021

EV Sales 11% Plugin Vehicle Share In China! Welcome to China × Cleantech — April 2021 edition. Our China x Cleantech series covers top cleantech stories in China each month. On the 23rd of April, José Pontes reported on the sales numbers of the Chinese EV market in March of 2021. It was a great month, […].

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

In a world where electric vehicles and utility-scale batteries are taking over, it would be nice to not depend on a geopolitical rival for your most important raw material. Add in Zimbabwe, where Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. has reportedly held takeover talks with Shenzhen-based electric vehicle-maker BYD Co.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2022

90% of the vehicles imported into most African counties are used vehicles imported from Europe, Asia, and North America. This is because most people are not able to afford brand new vehicles that usually retail from about $30,000.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We try to cover what is happening in all the key EV markets of the world, and we increasingly cover quite a lot of content focusing on the development of the African EV market. We are always on the lookout for any interesting developments. There is a lot of exciting stuff happening all over the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 24, 2023

BYD has some big plans for the Japanese market, according to reports from Tokyo. The reports say BYD wants to. continued] The post BYD’s Plan for Japan is Good for Africa appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The African continent is home to more than 50 countries and more than 1.3 billion people. A lot of exciting. continued] The post There Is A Silent Revolution Happening In Africa appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2024

Last week, China’s President, Xi Jinping, was in Paris, France. Again, there were calls for China to address “Structural Overcapacity” that “will lead to Chinese EVs flooding Europe.” The loudest call came from Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, who said “China continues to massively support its.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 18, 2021

“Thanks for keeping my car alive while I was away. I didn’t park in the best spot and I was going to have 40+ sentry notifications, but I was in a rush to get on the plane and at least I could count on you guys being there.”.

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CleanTechnica EVs

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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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 16, 2022

Siemens Stiftung’s “Testing E-Mobility Business Models at WE Hub Victoria Limited in Kenya” report aptly highlights the importance of mobility in the introduction section of the report by stating that “Mobility is the basis for the overall development of a society: it gives the population access to jobs, markets, social facilities, and health care.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The report shows that the three largest exporters of used vehicles—the European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States of America (USA)—exported 14 million used light duty vehicles (LDVs) worldwide between 2015 and 2018. The EU was the largest exporter with 54% of the total followed by Japan (27%) and the USA (18%).

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