The first electric minibus taxi model will be in South Africa before the end of the year.
Stellenbosch University and several companies aim to bring the first electric minibus taxi to South African shores before the end of 2022.The project team comprises GoMetro, MiX Telematics, HSW, ACDC Dynamics, and various entities within Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Engineering and SU’s Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies .
“Taxi drivers and owners are very interested and intrigued by the idea of an electric minibus taxi, and are constantly asking us when the first electric minibus taxi will arrive on our shores,” said GoMetro CEO Justin Coetzee. The consortium said the aim of testing different models is to establish which vehicle would best suit South Africa’s public transport industry.
“The informal taxi sector must transform to EVs, but little is known about their energy requirements,” said SU Internet of Things research chair Professor Thinus Booysen.“This unknown is overshadowed by our energy scarcity and coal dependence on the electricity supply side,” he added.
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