HARD SELL FOR SA
By David Furlonger
SA "has no intention of being left behind" in electric vehicle development. This is the message from government, according to department of trade & industry automotive chief director Mkhululi Mlota. The Industrial Development Corp...

A QUIET HUM IN THE GARAGE
By Matthew Hill
Mention the likelihood of electric cars coming to SA at the proverbial dinner table and you're likely to get a cynical response - something like: "How are you going to get to the office during load shedding ?" The reality is somewhat different. Wh...

CHARGED UP

What are your production plans and where will you build? We will start commercial production in 2013 and plan to get to 50 000 annual units by 2015. We have short-listed East London and Coega as assembly sites. East London has a lo...

BACK TO THE FUTURE
By David Furlonger
The first nuclear prototype, the 1958 Ford Nucleon, was powered by a small nuclear reactorIt says much about the motor industry's tardy quest for clean fuels that the technology allowing cars to run on hydrogen was invented over 200 ye...

EMISSION IMPOSSIBLE
By David Furlonger
While government and industry debate the best way for SA to follow the electrical revolution, SA hasn't worked out how to respond to previous "green" automotive technologies. Last week's budget announcement by finance minister Prav...