Electric car charging surging in South Africa — and it could become a problem

One of South Africa’s biggest public electric vehicle charging station providers recorded a big jump in usage of its infrastructure in 2023.

Rubicon e-mobility project manager and Tesla business development manager Hilton Musk recently shared the usage statistics of these chargers with MyBroadband. The number jumped to 1,403 in the third quarter, followed by a further increase to 1,565 transactions in the fourth quarter.These increases helped to more than triple Rubicon’s quarterly revenue from public charging electricity sales. To be more specific, the revenue in the last quarter was 243% higher than in the first quarter.

Musk also provided a list of the top ten most used Rubicon public charging stations, with Mall of Africa leading by a significant margin. It recorded well over 800 charging sessions. Blandford himself drives a self-imported Tesla Model Y, which was the world’s best-selling car in 2023. This could suggest that people are plugging out sooner than they previously did, possibly to help the person waiting to start charging their car.

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