It was bound to happen sooner or later (probably the former when you take into account that the electric car movement is sweeping the globe and is here to stay).
Cape Town is currently being considered by automotive manufacturers BMW and Nissan as South Africa’s first electric car-charging hub. It may sound futuristic, but electric cars are nothing new in South Africa, Nissan having brought the Leaf to our market in 2010 and BMW launching the electric i3 and i8 models last year.
Does this mean that we could be in for a radical transition to electric cars? Not at all. The government failed to deliver on installing 50 electric car-charging points in Gauteng in 2012 due to uncertainty about who would be responsible for the infrastructure and the associated costs. BMW and Nissan are now taking a hands-on approach to speed up the process.
Electric cars are fantastic, no doubts there, but mostly unfeasible when you add load-shedding to the equation.
Read more here.
CapeTownEtc cape_town_brad do you like swipe your credit card to charge? Is it compatible with the leaf and the bmw?
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steviedeehook cape_town_brad no Steven, you like, don’t.
CapeTownEtc CapeTown what about the load shedding
@therock676 hahaha but it does mention in article that it is unfeasible due to load shedding, maybe that is why there are solar panels attached to hub?
But we don’t have electricity *puzzled*
Not with Eskom we won’t. ..
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How will this happen with the current load shedding?!
Until they steal the copper wires…
Lol
Good, hopefully once we’ve charged them, they can power our houses from 18:00-20:30 every 2nd night.
CapeTownEtc CapeTown Nou kom daar eers load shedding lol…
There will be a seperate grid. It will have nothing to do with eskom and will be run by key players in the motor industry.
Solar
Frode Rudolfsen Unni Rudolfsen funny hey?
Remember this idea Liora Friedland
Ha ha ha!! U0001f602 But a bit late for 1 April!!
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Yes, just wait 6 hours sir, while we charge your battery????????
mishi_za let’s hope you don’t need to charge your car when its load shedding
Hahahaha good luck
Hahahaha
Hahahaha,wrong country
With Load Shedding??