An Idea Whose Time Has Come. I’ve never liked that expression. It’s a bit clumsy. It’s also a bit ‘I told you so’ in tone. But we use it because it says what we want to get across. It seems that the EV is an idea whose time has come. It seems inexorable that EV sales…
When you fill up an ICE vehicle, it’s either diesel or petrol, and it takes about 5 minutes to fill the tank – end of discussion. But when you need to recharge an EV there’s a lot to discuss: trickle charging, fast charging, and ultra-fast charging. On top of that there are variable costs attached to…
#EVrevolution #GetReadySA Earlier this month John Berks, the original shock-jock passed away. On his breakfast show on 702 he affected a ‘Boykie from the South’-persona, saying things such as: “Hey! You betta catch a wake-up” or, “We’re rough and we’re tough and we smoke that stuff”. We loved Boykie, and we’ll miss Berks. Lately, at…
Picture this: on a planet somewhere one species evolves a brain so huge it dominates all other species. At some point, the species gets tired… or bored… of its slow walking speed. It invents technologies that greatly speed up its movement. Suddenly the species can get to places further and faster than ever before. But…
US author Kurt Vonnegut gave this advice to budding writers: Put on your hat before you start writing because you never know where you’ll end up. In 1984 when Wang Chuanfu – the son of peasant farmers in rural China – made it into the chemistry programme at Central South University in Changsha, Hunan, he…
So, before we judge whether Greta Thunberg is correct let’s do a little background recap. COP stands for Congress of the Parties. The “parties” being the members of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This is a complicated business, but the important thing is that COP is the supreme decision-making body of the UNCCC. COP is the business end of the UNCCC stick. Meetings are held once a year.
Electric vehicles and recyclable packaging? When did we lose the plot? It’s no use debating that, backward-looking sentiments won’t get us anywhere. But if we look forward, we will see plenty of electric vehicles. I don’t think we’ll ever see electric trolleybuses or milk floats again, but the electric passenger car is here. Recently a…
Welcome to the first blog in a series that will cover everything EV. Mankind is at the beginning of an exciting era and there are constantly new developments and trends. At times we will get tangential and philosophize about matters peripheral to EVs. If you’re not sure what EV stands for, let me get that…
Green energy will soon charge your car on roads across SA South African road users can look forward to a reliable network of charging stations for electric vehicles – all 100% powered by green energy. Zero Carbon Charge is currently rolling out a national network of fast chargers on all the strategic routes in South…
