Electric vehicles to be introduced in Nigeria car market 2018

Nigus Enfinity, an indigenous firm, says it will bring electric vehicles into the Nigerian car market in 2018 and that its local gathering plant for electric vehicles will be prepared in 2020.

Malik Ado-Ibrahim, director of the organization, made this known to columnists in an intelligent session which held in Abuja on Thursday.

Ado-Ibrahim said a few nations over the world have set focuses for the boycott of oil fuelled vehicles with India focusing on 2030, and the United Kingdom, 2040.

He said Nigeria and Africa need to search internally to be at the fore of the car revolution or risk getting to be squander canister for restricted vehicles from different nations.

Ado-Ibrahim, who was the main African to lead the Formula 1 Team global race car competition in 1999, said his firm is as of now constructing a 100 megawatts (mw) sun based power plant in Katsina and another in Adamawa state.

As per him, the organization has likewise joined forces with Build Your Dreams, a Chinese firm, to import electric vehicles at reasonable expenses from 2018.

“We are also working with BYD to get a local brand and start an electric vehicle assembly plant for Nigeria from 2020. Gradually we will move to an EV with the African DNA starting in Nigeria,” he said.