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But most African governments lack the data needed to make the case for financial institutions and development banks to put money into building electric charging infrastructure, they added. The University of Oxford researchers noted that in 2018, carbon dioxide emissions from sub-Saharan Africa contributed only 2.3% of global emissions. Less than 12% of those African emissions came from transport.
Transport emissions in Africa grew by 84% between 2010 and 2016, the researchers noted, citing data from the Belgium-based Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport. At the same time, many poorer areas have limited access to electricity or struggle with frequent grid power outages, which would make reliable electric vehicle charging a challenge.
It will be good and useful innovation for our continent. African companies must participate in the development not spectators of the development and this continent is abound with minerals but its people are languishing in poverty.