OPINION | JOUBERT ROUX: ‘South Africa should take a leaf out of China’s Electric Vehicle book’

Joubert Roux in China

“Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country” exhorted a notable New York newspaper editor in 1865. Well, times change, and instead, in 2024, we would do well to look to the East to see a glimpse of what the future holds.  I recently spent two weeks in China, meeting a…

What would it be like if we really believed that a better world, a healthier planet, a happier population were possible?

A life on our Planet

Why you should be reading positive news. Something that really struck me reading David Attenborough’s “A Life on our Planet” was the thoughtful way it was structured. The first half of the book was really quite devastating. Attenborough describes the ways that we have destroyed the world and the fairly terrifying direction in which the…

MEDIA STATEMENT | ‘Zero Carbon Charge to build first network of off-grid electric truck charging stations on major highways in South Africa’

Electric truck charging stations in South Africa

9 APRIL 2024 Today, Zero Carbon Charge is proud to launch its new subsidiary Zero Carbon Logistics, which will roll out 120 solar PV electric truck charging sites on national highways across South Africa. This will be the first off-grid, 100% green electric truck charging network in the country. The initial 6 sites will be…

OPINION | JOUBERT ROUX: ‘We ignore the coming Electric Vehicle revolution at our peril’

Similarly, the growth of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is still being met with scepticism by some world leaders, despite many countries already switching to EVs at impressive rates. For example, in Norway, 80% of passenger vehicle sales in 2022 were EVs, while in China, the biggest car market in the world,  EV sales made up 22%…

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