Transport minister wants to use taxpayer money to transition South Africa’s taxi industry to electric vehicles

konfab said:
View attachment 1948577https://taxirecap.co.za/statistics/

Industry says there are around 350k taxies on the road.
https://businesstech.co.za/news/finance/878031/south-africas-cash-is-here-to-stay/

So their target was roughly 106k (or 29% of all taxies), and they hit 86k (or 24.6%). That isn't actually that bad as government programs go.


Not too sure what your point is. EVs are way better for neglectful owners than internal combustion engines. The maintenance burden for an EV is far lower than it is for an ICE engine.
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Surprised at those figures, higher than I seem to remember.

As for an unmaintained EV being better than an unmaintained ICE. I'm not sure I agree given the runaway chemical fire risk that the batteries pose to passengers and surrounding road users.
 
This dizzy, corrupt moron will announce the decision on 5th or 6th November or this will just go silent for near 4 years.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Surprised at those figures, higher than I seem to remember.

As for an unmaintained EV being better than an unmaintained ICE. I'm not sure I agree given the runaway chemical fire risk that the batteries pose to passengers and surrounding road users.
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driving on pavements and skipping red lights has got nothing to do with maintenance.
 
rustypup said:
They intentionally allowed the various taxi associations to target traditional public transport in order to render them non-functional.

Fark them. Fark these non paying scum.

Fark this free ride on the tax payer.
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Public transport operated by the government almost always carries colossal subsidies from the state. This is the case in most countries around the world. In ZA it is catastrophic.

Taxi industry is getting a fraction of what the bloated public transport gets, yet takes overwhelmingly more people.

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https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...oning-government-must-work-with-the-industry/
 
Imagine a taxi driver waiting an hour for his batteries to charge. Not gonna happen.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Surprised at those figures, higher than I seem to remember.

As for an unmaintained EV being better than an unmaintained ICE. I'm not sure I agree given the runaway chemical fire risk that the batteries pose to passengers and surrounding road users.
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For one thing, the EVs are guaranteed to be newer. So you already have less risk. The car will just stop working before anything bad happens.

I might add that setting a fuel tank on fire is also a runaway chemical fire risk :laugh:
 
purrr said:
Imagine a taxi driver waiting an hour for his batteries to charge. Not gonna happen.
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Charging between morning and evening rush whilst they are waiting. For a fraction of the price they pay on petrol? Of course they will do it. Plus charging is getting faster - you should not time it from empty to full. The question is how much can they charge whilst loading at the rank. If do they 30km round trip and use 15% of battery how long will it take to make that up. If they can charge more than what the trip is then great. And I suspect with start/stop traffic the EVs will be terrifically efficient.
 
wingnut771 said:
Nevermind waiting an hour, where do they charge in the first place?
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if setting up charging ports in the Taxi's you will start having taxi warfare not over routes but over who gets to charge their EV's first and also how long will the charging ports be up before someone starts stealing the components from it.
 
Lupus said:
Make them proper public transport, where they need to pay taxes, keep roadworthy vehicles then sure... But right now frak right off.
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The petrol taxis will just burn the proper public transport EV ones and we all know how well they burn.
 
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