While incentives for electric vehicles and hybrids appear to be on the horizon, Parliamentary Portfolio Committee members are showing a healthy degree of scepticism.
During a meeting on the draft White Paper on Green Hydrogen and the move towards manufacturing electric vehicles, the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation, Tsakani Shiviti, called on the government to pilot electric vehicles before forcing them on the public.
She said that while government welcomed the innovations, South Africa should not be pushed into accepting things that do not empower its people or resolve its challenges. “We are as sympathetic as anyone else to the climate change-exacerbating factors, but we all should exercise lateral thinking on how to mitigate or adapt, and not being dictated to by the West.”
A Reuters study in the US showed that a Tesla Model 3 electric sedan would need to drive for 126,000km to achieve “eco parity” with a petrol-powered equivalent if it were only plugged into a coal-powered electricity grid.A move to electric vehicles by the government would also be an expensive one, with family-sized electric vehicles currently starting at over R760,000 in South Africa.
He further said that abandoning combustion engines, as well as coal power, could also leave many South Africans destitute and without jobs.
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