The road trip, in October, involved a four-day road trip across South Africa to test the feasibility of driving electric vehicles EVs across the country, including to remote villages in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape and across countless mountain passes.
The road trip involved and was led by Naamsa, KPMG, Accenture, Woolworths, the Industrial Development Corporation, the UK's Foreign Commonwealth Development Office, the Electric Mission, and Wesbank and FNB, and TechCentral.
The journey was aimed at bringing a fresh focus to the challenges that could face EV owners doing long-distance road trips in South Africa, especially in more remote parts of the country.
- Greg Cress, principal director for automative and e-mobility at Accenture
- Hideki Dex Machida, automotive industry leader at KPMG
- Feroz Koor, group sustainability officer at Woolworths Holdings
- Hiten Parmar, executive director at the Electric Mission
- Kival Singh, head of sustainability and ESG solutions at FNB South Africa
- Mikel Mabasa, CEO of Naamsa - The Automotive Business Council
- Nathan Fredericks, senior industry development planner at the Industrial Development Corporation
- Nicholas Brooks, first secretary - senior energy adviser for South Africa's Just Energy Transition Project
- Tshetlhe Litheko, chief policy officer at Naamsa - The Automotive Business Council
- Duncan McLeod, editor of TechCentral
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