by Nicholas ROLL with Audu Ali MARTE in Maiduguri and Yasmine CANGA VALLES in Lagos
EVs are making inroads even in Nigeria where the power grid is unreliable and a third of the country doesn't have access to electricity at all.
There are two ways to think about electric vehicles in Nigeria.
The first is that it's beyond folly to own an EV in a place where power outages are a fixture of daily life: the few EV drivers around are known to occasionally charge their vehicles off diesel-guzzling, black-smoke-puffing building generators that complement the nation's faltering grid.
The other is this: if it's possible to run an EV here, in a country where a vice president was once accused of being linked to a generator company that profited off the nation's grid collapse, then it's possible anywhere.
