SAIC Motor and Egypt's largest car sales company Mansour Automotive Group signed on Monday in Cairo a joint venture agreement to manufacture MG brand cars in Egypt
Africa's electric vehicle market has long been described as a future opportunity. In 2025, it started looking like a present one. Approximately 7,900 electric vehicles were sold in Egypt last year, making it the continent's largest EV market by volume. Morocco and South Africa followed in second and third place respectively, with the three markets together accounting for roughly 70% of all EV sales across Africa in 2025. Put differently, the continent's EV story is currently being written in three countries, and the gap between them and the rest of the continent remains substantial.
The headline number that deserves more attention than it typically gets is this: continental EV sales grew from around 4,000 units in 2023 to nearly 25,000 units in 2025. That is not incremental growth. That is a market more than sextupling in two years. In a continent of 1.4 billion people where fuel costs are acutely felt, where urban air quality is a growing public health concern, and where energy security is increasingly a strategic priority, that trajectory matters.
