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    BP quietly kills EV charger project in South Africa

    It's a chicken and egg situation...one affects the other,with not enough chargers people will have range axiety and not buy EV's. Thankfully SA is peppered with EV charging stations in the main cities and main routes...the smaller cities and outlying routes are quickly getting new chargers monthly.
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    BP quietly kills EV charger project in South Africa

    Exactly...I'm not understanding the complaint about 7kw home charging after over 2 years of EV ownership. I even limit mine to 4kw since we have some big energy pullers like large aircons/pool pumps/irrigation pumps and fish tank heaters etc etc that we run simultaneously on a single phase grid...
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    South Africa's heavy-duty electric trucks to get battery swapping stations

    Maintenance will be significantly reduced all round which is a huge cost and time factor for logistics.
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    South Africa's heavy-duty electric trucks to get battery swapping stations

    I'm a proud capitalist.You have no idea what you're talking about,probably not in the trucking industry or have your head buried in the sand. I'm literally jumping at the bit to get reasonably priced electric trucks here with 350km+ range as a real world achievable minimum with a full...
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    South Africa's heavy-duty electric trucks to get battery swapping stations

    You seem to be quoting American rates here...doesn't apply in SA.To be clear we can load more and our trucks can be longer we even have super links.... Also 5 tons less sounds like Tesla numbers...in SA we have the SANY 600 which offers the same payloads as normal trucks like an Actros 2645.So...
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    South Africa's heavy-duty electric trucks to get battery swapping stations

    We're getting there...Rubicon have some fast chargers and I recently used Zero carbon charge's stations on the N3 which can reach 400kw...truly life changing to have fast EV chargers. BYD are planning to launch those over 1000kw chargers in SA in the next year or 2 also...Geely launched their...
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    New electric Jaecoo J5 in South Africa – Pricing revealed

    I think you've mis-read my post bud?Let me add appropriate punctuation to original post for clarification. To be clear: Australia has no local car manufacturing and duties. UK and SA manufacture cars and have duties to protect their local manufacturing plants.
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    New electric Jaecoo J5 in South Africa – Pricing revealed

    Let's hope they bring the Zeekr 7x and 8x in at reasonable prices...looking forward to those 2.
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    New electric Jaecoo J5 in South Africa – Pricing revealed

    Australia has no import duties,compared to us and the UK, since they don't manufacture any cars at all anymore...this means car prices are usually around 30% lower than here especially true for Chinese imports.
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    Upgrade for the BYD Shark in South Africa

    Chery KP31 or stockman or whatever it's gonna be called here in SA seems promising...diesel hybrid with a more serious suspension than the shark and 3 locking diffs for proper offroading....one to look out for,and looks good too,it apparently might come by end of the year or early next year and...
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    Herotel will distribute Amazon Leo in South Africa

    Nice find...28 over JHB currently.
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    Johannesburg's automatic traffic speed cameras haven't worked since December 2025

    Agreed we're jumping for them to rule our metros but we might live to regret this when they implement the Australian style nanny state mentality which becomes tenuous and draconian when they wanna dictate every small thing to you even about how to run your own family. And yes they're deep in...
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    EV drivers in South Africa struggling with panel beaters after crashes

    As an EV owner,who loves EV's for everyday cars and long distance cars, I agree...even with the noise on pedestrians especially in parking lots get caught off guard often...need to be extra vigilant as a driver to not run them over,why anybody would be dof enough to turn it off is beyond...
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    Scammers used WhatsApp and phone calls to steal R21.55 million from a company in Middelburg, South Africa

    Lol they call saying they want to increase your limit on your credit card too these days. Then request information for verification. Mrs Jordaan will probably be happy that they called and seize the opportunity with both hands next month.
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    South Africans could get digital driving licences before the updated driving licence card

    They probably have the solutions already in hand...the problem you see is how can they implement it while skimming a couple hundred million to a few billion for themselves under the radar,family members and friends don't always answer their phones and they put the wrong names on the new or off...
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