Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

BYD’s DM tech offers up to 245 hp (180 kW) max power and up to 745 miles (1,200 km) CTLC combined range. The Shark will look to take market share from Toyota’s Hilux and Isuzu’s D-MAX in key markets like Thailand, Australia, and South Africa. Radar began exporting RD6 models overseas late last year.

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EV Central

AUGUST 20, 2023

These EVs designed at Mahindra’s UK tech centre are the XUV:e8 and XUV:e9 SUVs and the BE:05, BE.07 Unveiled at a Mahindra event in South Africa, it will be based on a modified form of the India Global (hence INGLO) ladder frame platform called P1. Mahindra has globally revealed plans for five EVs split into two families – XUV.e

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

South Africa-based Optimal Energy has taken delivery of four of its Joule EVs ( earlier post ) for use as a marketing fleet. The marketing fleet was hand-built in Port Elizabeth by Hi-Tech Automotive, a specialist automotive production firm, and to date have undergone extensive testing within the premises.

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EV Central

JANUARY 24, 2024

Both will feature a radical design and be equipped with the Stellantis group’s latest EV tech.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Mittelbach brings over 20 years of experience from Mercedes, serving as plant manager in East London and South Africa. The EV maker expects to slash production costs drastically with new tech and methods to improve efficiency. Less than two weeks later, Rivian brought on former Stellantis North America exec Carlo Materazzo.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Westcott, who has worked in the renewable energy sector converting a coal-fired power station to run on bio-mass in his native South Africa, confirmed he had lobbied federal government ministers on the issue. “We But in a recent report industry super funds warned the transition risked falling behind without increased investment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), which is billed as “a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech's pervasive influence.” One of our research fellows, Raesetje Sefala , is based in South Africa and grew up in a township. In December 2021 she announced the founding of a new organization, the.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 11, 2023

Its core team members come partly from Great Wall Motor's smart driving R&D team and partly from local tech companies. Vehicles equipped with the driving assistance system will be available in the Middle East, South Africa and Australia, and the Mexican and Russian versions of HPilot will be in mass production soon, Zhang said.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Currently, materials such as nickel, manganese, lithium, and cobalt are sourced from Indonesia, South Africa, Australia, South America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and elsewhere.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

This month, Lepogo Lodges in South Africa will open the carbon-neutral Melote House , accommodating up to 16 guests and funneling profits back into the Lapalala Wilderness Reserve, where it is situated (nightly rates from $12,000). Travelers will have no shortage of new destinations to feed their hunger for health.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Despite American tech and automotive companies leading the way in AV development, Americans are among the most reluctant to use it. Many Americans are unsure where regulation should come from, but would prefer manufacturers and tech companies (36%) to self-regulate over government regulation (24%).

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