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The electric revolution is gathering serious pace in some markets, but in South Africa, there is great concern amongst the public as to just how electric cars are going to work in our country.
Whenever you mention driving an EV in South Africa, the first word on everyone’s lips is “Eskom”. Yes, load shedding is not exactly ideal. But as we discuss in this podcast, it’s not as big a problem as motorists perceive it to be.
Alex Parker is an award-winning author, car journalist, and communications specialist who is currently working in the environmental communications space.
In this podcast, he joins Ciro De Siena to help answer the question, will electric cars work in South Africa? We also cover the most popular electric car in China, what happens to South African manufacturing of cars if all of our export markets go electric, and Alex introduces us to the complicated world of CBAM – cross border adjustment mechanisms, which is going make trading with the EU quite tricky indeed.
The electric revolution is gathering serious pace in some markets, but in South Africa, there is great concern amongst the public as to just how electric cars are going to work in our country.
Whenever you mention driving an EV in South Africa, the first word on everyone’s lips is “Eskom”. Yes, load shedding is not exactly ideal. But as we discuss in this podcast, it’s not as big a problem as motorists perceive it to be.
Alex Parker is an award-winning author, car journalist, and communications specialist who is currently working in the environmental communications space.
In this podcast, he joins Ciro De Siena to help answer the question, will electric cars work in South Africa? We also cover the most popular electric car in China, what happens to South African manufacturing of cars if all of our export markets go electric, and Alex introduces us to the complicated world of CBAM – cross border adjustment mechanisms, which is going make trading with the EU quite tricky indeed.