BMW in talks to build electric cars in South Africa

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The carmaker is awaiting a policy decision before it can take its business case for EV manufacturing in South Africa to its Munich headquarters.

BMW wants to manufacture electric cars in South Africa, and the German carmaker is in discussions with government around policy regarding electric vehicles , Sunday TimesBMW South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen believes the move would help BMW secure long-term production in the country.

“Further work to complement stakeholder consultations was commissioned to analyse what other countries are doing to support EVs and exploring opportunities in related component production,” it told Sunday Times. However, he added that a policy decision is required before BMW can take its business case for EV manufacturing in South Africa to the carmaker’s Munich headquarters.recently.

During the period, the most-searched EVs on the classified platform included the BMW i3, Porsche Taycan, and various Audi E-Tron models.

 

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Is it April fools month?

Imagine Eskom/Local South African Company come out with their own electric car brand, just to collect dust in your garage.

Most expensive lawn ornament ever as we can't charge the car🤣 It will cost more petrol to run the generator to charge the car than to drive the new X6

They really should build the iX3 asap in Pretoria.

If it fails, blame it on the government officials seeking bribes

🙈 oh for export?

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