“We need to do that with urgency because the reality of climate change is such that countries are setting targets of how many fossil fuel vehicles they want on their roads, and we want investors and headquarters of OEMs to see South Africa putting up its hand very early in the decision-making process about where production will be located in future.
“You miss that bus, then others would have a consolidated presence in the electric vehicle market,” he said.
Finally government is waking up to the fact that the export market is not going to be buying combustion engines in the future. But the process is only starting now, and we are a good year behind the times already.
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