The latest news about Optimal Energy, Joule - The electric car

The Joule electric car is the first vehicle to be developed and manufactured by a wholly owned South African company, with the country’s other car plants being funded by multinational motor companies.

The matter of charging infrastructure and who takes responsibility for this has become a hot topic lately. The mass-scale adoption of electric vehicles in the near future is dependant upon the development of a public charging infrastructure that could service EVs of all types.

Parts of South Africa are experiencing one of the coldest winters for many years and while most of us enjoy the comforts of warm clothes and blankets to protect us from the cold, many are forced to spend their nights being battered by the elements.

The success of the 2010 Fifa World Cup and the massive global publicity South Africa received has once and for all ended the widespread international ignorance of the huge contribution this country is already making on the world stage.

Forget carbon foot printing. Forget global warming (well, not entirely because it is one enormous problem). Forget the price of petrol. The primary reason we should be looking at sustainable energy is that the alternative is just such an unutterably horrible idea.