The South African automotive industry has again appealed for the inclusion of demand-side incentives to stimulate the uptake of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), notwithstanding government’s ongoing insistence that any policy framework to support so-called new energy vehicles, including BEVs, will be production-led. Speaking at a naamsa | The Automotive Business Council conference in Tshwane, naamsa president Neale Hill said that the prevailing price premium of BEVs relative to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars was more than 50% currently and that most countries where, thus, implementing demand-side interventions to catalyse sales.
