TechCentral readers will keep in mind that the publication took half lately in an epic street journey throughout South Africa in 5 electrical vehicles. Now there’s an equally epic documentary concerning the occasion – and you may watch it right here!
The street journey, in October, concerned a four-day street journey throughout South Africa to check the feasibility of driving electrical autos (EVs) throughout the nation, together with to distant villages within the Jap Cape and Western Cape and throughout numerous mountain passes.
The journey, which took in distant cities within the Karoo, together with Nieu-Bethesda and Prince Albert (through the Swartberg move), got here forward of Naamsa | The Automotive Enterprise Council’s SA Auto Week occasion in Cape City.
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The street journey concerned — and was led by — Naamsa, KPMG, Accenture, Woolworths, the Industrial Improvement Company, the UK’s International Commonwealth Improvement Workplace, the Electrical Mission, and Wesbank and FNB, and TechCentral.
The journey was geared toward bringing a recent focus to the challenges that would face EV homeowners doing long-distance street journeys in South Africa, particularly in additional distant elements of the nation.
All 5 autos – a Volvo XC40, a BMW iX50, a Mercedes-Benz EQE 350+, a BYD Seal and a Volkswagen ID.4 – made it to Cape City, regardless of a number of nerve-wracking hours in Colesberg and Jansenville (a hamlet within the Jap Cape).
The staff
Aside from a content material manufacturing crew (made up of Jonathan Pinkhard, Frank Meyer and Shaun Abdul), the staff on the street journey consisted of:
- Greg Cress, principal director for automative and e-mobility at Accenture
- Hideki (Dex) Machida, automotive business chief at KPMG
- Feroz Koor, group sustainability officer at Woolworths Holdings
- Hiten Parmar, govt director on the Electrical Mission
- Kival Singh, head of sustainability and ESG options at FNB South Africa
- Mikel Mabasa, CEO of Naamsa – The Automotive Enterprise Council
- Nathan Fredericks, senior business growth planner on the Industrial Improvement Company
- Nicholas Brooks, first secretary – senior vitality adviser for South Africa’s Simply Power Transition Mission
- Tshetlhe Litheko, chief coverage officer at Naamsa – The Automotive Enterprise Council
- Duncan McLeod, editor of TechCentral
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