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Seems they still want to build it.

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CrowdFunding - Mazibuko Motors

be Part of the Change Crowdfunding Fund Now Contact Us Mazibuko Motor Company About The Campaign The purpose for this crowdfunding campaign is to help us continue working on the development of our vehicle. Funders will be get a number of pecks with one of the them being able to name the pick-up...
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WAslayer said:
I had always wanted some pecks, so why not get a bakkie and the pecks..

Count me in..!!!
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The bakkie with the pecks.

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Where is Mazibuko? I want to see him state his vision, not someone speaking about him as if he has arrived.
 
Hmmmm They're looking to crowdfund money and using the pie chart on their site it looks like they're trying to get R150m.

Even if the number they're presenting is in dollars, they're way shy of what it will take to develop a vehicle and bring it to market... but many hundreds of millions.
 
Mazibuko M1B is a Mzansi-made battery bakkie

This South African battery bakkie has huge power.

Battery bakkies are the future. Tesla has invested in producing its Cybertruck and Rivian could be the most keenly anticipated launch in a decade.

South Africans might feel a touch amiss in all of this. We are a proven bakkie market, with loyal customers and knowledgeable product planners. But where are the South African battery bakkie options? We’ll tell you: they are at Mazibuko Motors - perhaps.

This new South African automotive start-up is keen on disrupting the local status quo or Hilux and Ranger, with its M1B, which is 45 mm longer and 25 mm narrower than a new Toyota 2.8 GD double-cab.

Using computer-aided design, Mazibuko Motors hopes to streamline its R&D costs. The M1B platform uses a skateboard type energy storage layout, much like Rivian’s battery-powered bakkies.

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Mazibuko M1B is a Mzansi-made battery bakkie

This South African battery bakkie has huge power. Battery bakkies are the future. Tesla has invested in producing its Cybertruck and Rivian could be the most keenly anticipated launch in a decade. South Africans might feel a touch amiss in all of this. We are a proven bakkie market, with loyal...
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Keerist, even cars.co.za is buying into the hype...

We are a proven bakkie market yes, but it is a market that is not big enough to even vaguely be able to satisfy the volume requirements to make something like this cost effective to design and build here unless there is a significant international interest (80 - 90% export volume potential at LEAST)
 
ToxicBunny said:
Keerist, even cars.co.za is buying into the hype...

We are a proven bakkie market yes, but it is a market that is not big enough to even vaguely be able to satisfy the volume requirements to make something like this cost effective to design and build here unless there is a significant international interest (80 - 90% export volume potential at LEAST)
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This. x100
 
FiestaST said:
This. x100
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I mean, Good on the guy for stepping up and putting it out there and trying and all that...

But I expect an outfit like cars.co.za to have some people who are vaguely bloody aware of the car market locally and internationally and the dynamics that make that market work.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Keerist, even cars.co.za is buying into the hype...

We are a proven bakkie market yes, but it is a market that is not big enough to even vaguely be able to satisfy the volume requirements to make something like this cost effective to design and build here unless there is a significant international interest (80 - 90% export volume potential at LEAST)
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Not withstanding our market is characterized by travelling long distances frequently. Which this would likely not handle. Also, not sure how well the batteries will be protected from rocks when off roading.

Then, come one guys, you're local, how the F do you want to develop something that needs Eskom to work?
 
GhostSixFour said:
Not withstanding our market is characterized by travelling long distances frequently. Which this would likely not handle. Also, not sure how well the batteries will be protected from rocks when off roading.

Then, come one guys, you're local, how the F do you want to develop something that needs Eskom to work?
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Well given that its 165mm clearance, I wouldn't take this thing offroad for fsck all... that is not even vaguely acceptable.

I'm not too phased by the Eskom/Charging aspect... Electric cars are coming.
 
GhostSixFour said:
Then, come one guys, you're local, how the F do you want to develop something that needs Eskom to work?
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Not this again...

Loadshedding in and of itself does not go on for an entire 24 hours for your house alone.. you would have enough electricity on time, to charge your EV in between loadshedding.. unless Eskom decides to go down to the hell loadshedding stages..

Even then, municipalities have been allowed to get electricity from IPP's and six of them in Western Cape have already been allocated budgets to do just that..
 
I wonder where they got this new and imaginative design from.

I give it 1 year before we start seeing the articles about scam/money stolen.
 
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Using computer-aided design, Mazibuko Motors hopes to streamline its R&D costs.
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Gee, if only Toyota had thought of using computers to design their cars....

If they really wanted to compete with the likes of Tesla and VW, they would need to do something different. Making it easy to repair by yourself for example would be a good step in the right direction.
 
konfab said:
Gee, if only Toyota had thought of using computers to design their cars....

If they really wanted to compete with the likes of Tesla and VW, they would need to do something different. Making it easy to repair by yourself for example would be a good step in the right direction.
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You know how we keep saying that these people like “driving western (white) cars”. Well, this vehicle is the solution so we don’t have to hear that line anymore.
 
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