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• LDV's Gerhard Moolman on electric bakkies and fleets

  October 9, 2026 · 26 min

  LDV South Africa isn't courting buyers whose fathers and grandfathers drove the same bakkie brand. CEO Gerhard Moolman wants the fleet owner replacing five vehicles who will try one LDV. Moolman, who took over in March after 23 years with…

• Rubicon’s EV charging network is profitable – and growing fast

  September 8, 2026 · 25 min

  The company runs 125 chargers and wants a thousand within five years, focused on urban hubs. -- Rubicon’s public charging network is profitable and grew usage markedly in two months as fuel prices spiked, the company’s e-mobility head…

• Why electric trucks are beating electric cars to South Africa

  September 3, 2026 · 31 min

  South Africa has still not crossed 1% of new vehicle sales going to electric vehicles, well short of the 5% mark at which adoption typically accelerates, The Electric Mission executive director Hiten Parmar told TechCentral’s Watts &…

• Winstone Jordaan on building a national EV charging network

  September 2, 2026 · 23 min

  Winstone Jordaan was building charging infrastructure before South Africa had electric cars to plug into it. GridCars began developing its backend platform in 2010. The first EVs arrived in 2013. In this episode of Watts & Wheels with…

• Watts & Wheels S1E8: ‘Tesla lands in Africa, just not here’

  August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

  Episode 8 of Watts & Wheels – TechCentral’s electric motoring show – opens with William Kelly on his soapbox, clipboard in hand, and a simple demand: keep left, pass right. Too many South African drivers, he argues, treat the left…

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