CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 17, 2021

One of the best ways to accelerate adoption of electric vehicles is just to make them available. In South Africa, for example, the BMW i3 was for a very long time the only full electric vehicle available on the market. In many markets, there are only a few models available for consumers to buy. Right […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Volkswagen has signed a joint development agreement with Siemens to provide the charging infrastructure for the electric cars. With the launch of the pilot project, Rwanda becomes the first African country to introduce a Volkswagen electric car. Ghana and Ethiopia are planned as the next locations.

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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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

However, it also shows that where countries have implemented measures to govern the import of used vehicles—notably age and emissions standards —these give them access to high-quality used vehicles, including hybrid and electric cars, at affordable prices.

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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

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

JANUARY 3, 2023

Throughout 2022, researchers, staff, and leadership at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) worked together with collaborators and partners to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There is probably no better place and time to advertise vehicles with Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) capability than in South Africa right now! Vehicles equipped with V2L make it possible to power 240V appliances, for example, from the vehicle’s traction battery.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 4, 2021

Ghana’s new Automotive Development Policy has […]. Several countries in Africa are looking at resuscitating old motor vehicle assembly plants or developing new assembly plants.

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