Mazibuko M1B

WAslayer said:
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..
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Counter point - when we were at loadshedding stage 4 - the power drain was severe enough that a lot of the cellphone tower backups ran dry. Also, if you have loadshedding at your house and as you move to the office, loadshedding moves with you, the effect can be drastic.

Then, take into account the amount of times substations decide to seppuku themselves, and plunge the areas into darkness for extended periods of time, and I wouldn't bet on getting a EV myself.

My I'm just grim cause our area had this happen the last two weekends. Power off on Thursday, only back on sometime saturday..
 
GhostSixFour said:
Counter point - when we were at loadshedding stage 4 - the power drain was severe enough that a lot of the cellphone tower backups ran dry. Also, if you have loadshedding at your house and as you move to the office, loadshedding moves with you, the effect can be drastic.

Then, take into account the amount of times substations decide to seppuku themselves, and plunge the areas into darkness for extended periods of time, and I wouldn't bet on getting a EV myself.

My I'm just grim cause our area had this happen the last two weekends. Power off on Thursday, only back on sometime saturday..
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Counter counter point: this thing is likely to be expensive AF, at least initially.. those who could afford to buy one, would also be able to afford either off-grid or grid-tied power backup and likely have this installed already..
 
WAslayer said:
Counter counter point: this thing is likely to be expensive AF, at least initially.. those who could afford to buy one, would also be able to afford either off-grid or grid-tied power backup and likely have this installed already..
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/submission

Fair enough.

Unless we want to go counter to that point and say people that can afford this, will likely buy something else. Unless government subsidises it. But that is going way off track from the thread and also the original comment I made, plus, it's mainly speculation. So let's not go down that track.

Point taken, EV's in SA will likely not be affected by loadshedding and Eskom.
 
FiestaST said:
If this vehicle actually makes production. They're gotta hella mountain to climb.

I do tip my hat to the idea (in theory).
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TBH the more I think about it, the more I look at it and dissect what is put out there... The more the alarm bells are ringing actually.
 
I want to fund this. I really do. But I don't think any of the early investors in such should go in as investors. Just donors to help make the first print possible. Once we have that physical prototype then we can move on to funders to make a moving vehicle.
 
How Nhlanhla Mazibuko plans to plug into the EV scene with his electric bakkie


The vehicle
“Everything is still in concept stage,” admits the man with a deep IT lexicon. Most parts such as the battery packs and the chassis have already been digitally designed in-house, “but we plan to source the electric motors from an outside supplier”, says Mazibuko.

Having researched what goes into making an electric car, he also discovered Foxconn, a Taiwanese tech company that will from 2025 sell open-source electric car chassis to any upstart wanting to build its own EV.
“This opens up more chassis possibilities for synergies going forward, but plans are to continue with our own chassis for two and four-wheel drive model bakkies,” added the tech fanatic who also builds apps and websites.
On the matter of production premises he doesn’t plan to build the car locally. “Yes, the ideal situation would be local production but the reality of the kind of money needed to run such a business is that you have to find the quickest, least painful route to have the car on the roads and thus our plan is to have the first model built internationally.”

Môre at:
www.timeslive.co.za

How Nhlanhla Mazibuko plans to plug into the EV scene with his electric bakkie

Owner of a digital printing business lights up social media with the prospect of the rise of a black Elon Musk
www.timeslive.co.za www.timeslive.co.za
 
rph72 said:
How Nhlanhla Mazibuko plans to plug into the EV scene with his electric bakkie


The vehicle
“Everything is still in concept stage,” admits the man with a deep IT lexicon. Most parts such as the battery packs and the chassis have already been digitally designed in-house, “but we plan to source the electric motors from an outside supplier”, says Mazibuko.

Having researched what goes into making an electric car, he also discovered Foxconn, a Taiwanese tech company that will from 2025 sell open-source electric car chassis to any upstart wanting to build its own EV.
“This opens up more chassis possibilities for synergies going forward, but plans are to continue with our own chassis for two and four-wheel drive model bakkies,” added the tech fanatic who also builds apps and websites.
On the matter of production premises he doesn’t plan to build the car locally. “Yes, the ideal situation would be local production but the reality of the kind of money needed to run such a business is that you have to find the quickest, least painful route to have the car on the roads and thus our plan is to have the first model built internationally.”

Môre at:
www.timeslive.co.za

How Nhlanhla Mazibuko plans to plug into the EV scene with his electric bakkie

Owner of a digital printing business lights up social media with the prospect of the rise of a black Elon Musk
www.timeslive.co.za www.timeslive.co.za
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It doesn't look like there's any progress.
 
Paywall:

Could your next vehicle purchase be an electric bakkie?

• Electric mobility is approaching much faster than we all expected.
• Elon Musk's Cybertruck has already surpassed one million pre-orders.
• A South African businessman, Nhlanhla Mazibuko, intends to build SA's first electric bakkie.

www.news24.com

Could your next vehicle purchase be an electric bakkie? | Life

South Africans love bakkies! Increasingly, they're becoming intrigued by electric vehicles (EVs) too. So, is it possible to marry the two and to buy an EV bakkie locally?
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