Where Are The Charging Ports?
As the world advance in the adoption of electric vehicle to reduce the effect of pollution poised by petrol and diesel engines, several players in the automotive industries have sprung up notable among which are Tesla, Nissan and BMW.
While electric vehicles continue to make gradual but steady advancement into the global market, the biggest factor that comes to play in its success is charging the vehicles. While we appreciate the efforts of the countries where electric vehicles have been adopted and necessary facilities put in place, we also need to reiterate to the Nigerian government and African at large that it is time they look beyond oil that will cease to be useful come 2040.
Over-dependence on oil has not helped our nation in growing as the government sees oil money as free money and as such no need to look elsewhere for revenue generation. Effects of this dependence has been seen and felt severally in the past. Is it foreign exchange shortage or the pollution in the oil producing regions? Not to mention the activities of militants in the region resulting in loss of revenue and human lives to say the least.
Last year over N500 million was released by the federal government for oil exploration in Borno state where we all know oil is non-existent. To me, this spending is not only needless, it is also wasteful as that amount will go a long way in positioning the country for readiness to embrace electric car when it eventually goes global in the year 2040, when all manufacturers have agreed to stop production of diesel and petrol cars.
Following are some of the countries where electric cars have been functional over the years;
1. Norway
2. Netherlands
3.United Kingdom
4. United States
5. France
6. Germany
7. Japan
8. China.
Tesla is building over 10000 units of chargers across the world, 1000 of which are going to China alone. it is no surprising that no African country is on the list of countries with EV, neither is any getting the chargers being offered by manufacturers simply due to our non-readiness for such phase of consumer motoring.
While electric vehicles continue to make gradual but steady advancement into the global market, the biggest factor that comes to play in its success is charging the vehicles. While we appreciate the efforts of the countries where electric vehicles have been adopted and necessary facilities put in place, we also need to reiterate to the Nigerian government and African at large that it is time they look beyond oil that will cease to be useful come 2040.
Over-dependence on oil has not helped our nation in growing as the government sees oil money as free money and as such no need to look elsewhere for revenue generation. Effects of this dependence has been seen and felt severally in the past. Is it foreign exchange shortage or the pollution in the oil producing regions? Not to mention the activities of militants in the region resulting in loss of revenue and human lives to say the least.
Last year over N500 million was released by the federal government for oil exploration in Borno state where we all know oil is non-existent. To me, this spending is not only needless, it is also wasteful as that amount will go a long way in positioning the country for readiness to embrace electric car when it eventually goes global in the year 2040, when all manufacturers have agreed to stop production of diesel and petrol cars.
Following are some of the countries where electric cars have been functional over the years;
1. Norway
2. Netherlands
3.United Kingdom
4. United States
5. France
6. Germany
7. Japan
8. China.
Tesla is building over 10000 units of chargers across the world, 1000 of which are going to China alone. it is no surprising that no African country is on the list of countries with EV, neither is any getting the chargers being offered by manufacturers simply due to our non-readiness for such phase of consumer motoring.
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