CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2024

Plug-in hybrid vehicles seem to have a growing market in South Africa. In 2023, there were 333 plug-in hybrids sold in South Africa. The number of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) sold in the first half of 2024 has already hit 88% of last year’s total, as 293 PHEVs were sold.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ford South Africa has announced that $281 million (USD) will be invested to produce the new plug-in hybrid Ford Ranger. more] The post Ford South Africa To Produce New Plug-In Hybrid Ford Ranger Pickup Truck appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

South Africa is one of the main motor vehicle assembly and manufacturing hubs on the African continent. Vehicles are produced in South Africa for the local South African market, the regional markets on the African continent, and for export to countries on other continents, such as Europe.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2024

Pickups are a big deal in several traditional auto markets as well as in smaller markets in Africa. About 60,000 Toyota Hilux pickups are sold in South Africa each year and a similar number in Australia. This is excluding sales of other popular pickups such as the Ford Ranger and.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

South Africa has a decently-sized new vehicle sales market. In 2024, just over half a million new vehicles (515,712) were sold in South Africa, a decrease of 3% from the 531,775 units sold in 2023. However, over 96% of all the new vehicles sold in South Africa are still internal.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 3, 2023

2,142 passenger plug-in hybrid vehicles were built in South Africa from January to May this year. 1,740 plug-in hybrid vehicles were built from January to April, meaning that 402 passenger plug-in hybrid vehicles were built in the month of May.

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Teslarati

MAY 8, 2024

The BYD Shark was pitted against electric vehicles like the Tesla Cybertruck and the Ford F-150 Lightning. However, the BYD shark will be a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) with the Asian automaker’s DMO (Dual-Mode Super Hybrid All-Terrain Off-Road Platform) technology).

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2024

Given that the automaker’s other electric vehicles (EVs) are called the Seal and Dolphin, BYD’s pickup truck definitely follows the sea animal theme. Pictures from the tests conducted in Mexico hint that the BYD Shark will go to right-hand-drive markets first, like Australia and South Africa.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Even as it considers launching Australia’s cheapest battery electric vehicle, Mitsubishi Australia is warning a slow roll-out of renewable energy will impact the uptake of EVs in Australia. That forthcoming legislation is one reason MMAL has imported a Japan-market ek X EV electric kei to test for market suitability.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 11, 2023

Coming soon Haomo is continuing to optimize DriveGPT, and the initial results will first be used in the new Mocha DHT-PHEV with Haomo HPilot 3.0, The Mocha DHT-PHEV is a model of Great Wall Motor's premium brand Wey, and Gu said the model will be available soon. "We equipped model, Wey Lanshan, will be launched this year.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Official JAC Motors documentation confirms the all-new ute will come as both an electric vehicle and a plug-in hybrid, but not with a traditional turbo-diesel drivetrain. After some recent sub-brand restructuring, they are being sold under the Sehol and Refine badges in their home market, but would stick to JAC in Australia.

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