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            <description><![CDATA[State-owned power utility Eskom says it has sufficient capacity to accommodate the current growth in electric vehicle (EV) sales, buoyed by surging oil prices, but points out that low-voltage residential networks will, most likely, pose a future challenge. Speaking at the Africa E-Mobility Week 2026 held in Stellenbosch this week,]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The current rate of vehicle imports from China will decimate the local vehicle and parts manufacturing industry, warns Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa CEO Bobby Ramagwede. Addressing the Automechanika CEO Breakfast held in Cape Town on Tuesday, he said that the domestic automotive industry was “in big trouble” as the exports and local sales of South African-made vehicles were in sharp decline.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) is out on tender for another 40 to 60 electric buses to join the GABS fleet after April next year, says company engineer Gideon Neethling. Speaking on Monday at the Africa E-Mobility Week 2026 held in Stellenbosch, he said the new buses would add to the 120 BYD electric buses already in the Golden Arrow fleet.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Volkswagen and Gotion High-Tech Co plan to invest €3.22-billion ($3.7-billion) in battery facilities in Europe and North Africa as they push to set up an electric vehicle supply chain outside China. The German automaker and Gotion are eyeing to build battery plants in Spain and Slovakia and a facility in Morocco to make cathode materials, the Chinese manufacturer said in a statement. The factories will be run by joint ventures, with the monetary investment split almost equally by the partners.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[GoMetro and flx EV have kicked off the Mzansi electric truck super test 2026 in partnership with Germany’s Kuehne Climate Centre (KCC). The test will see Chinese-made Sany battery electric trucks travel roughly 4 000 km along South Africa’s major freight routes, as they move from Johannesburg to Cape Town to Gqeberha to East London to Durban and finally on to Johannesburg.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT’s) SunChaser 4 has won top honours in the 2026 Sasol Solar Challenge. The local team crossed the finish line first in the eight-day race from Sasolburg to Franschhoek this month, ahead of overseas competitors Solar Energy Racers from Switzerland and Team AgniRath from India.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Automotive company Nissan has launched the new Nissan Tekton for the South African market during the company’s Nissan Auto Festival, held at the Gallagher Convention Centre, in Midrand, on September 21. Nissan Africa and Europe president Jordi Villa said South Africa was the first African market to receive this model since the global launch in India, underscoring the importance of the country to the group.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A South African consortium led by former Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman is working with Rothschild & Co on a bid to bring Formula One racing back to the African continent. Froneman, mining veteran Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan and law firm Webber Wentzel’s Robert Appelbaum, are planning to build a R6.7-billion motorsport complex in the wheat-growing Swartland region north of Cape Town, Bob Hartslief, a businessman who’s part of the consortium, said in an interview.]]></description>
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