MAHLE advocates for technological diversity in Africa’s automotive transition

From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, this is the Real Economy Report.

Sashnee Moodley:

As South Africa’s automotive sector enters a defining phase, innovation, localisation, electrification and Africa’s growth opportunity are all shaping the road ahead. For automotive component manufacturer MAHLE in South Africa, the shift to cleaner mobility has to be treated as an industrial and market-specific transition. Sabrina Jardim has the story.

Sabrina Jardim:

With infrastructure, affordability, regulation and operating conditions differing widely across the continent, MAHLE believes the transition to cleaner mobility will have to be led by technological diversity, with electric, hybrid, hydrogen, sustainable fuel and efficient internal combustion technologies working alongside each other according to market need.