Problem: Africa Needs Coherent Electric Mobility Implementations
Although they are principally developed and used for transportation purposes, electric vehicles (EV) do TRANSFORM energy surpluses across form, space and time. Renewable distributed energy resources (DER) also transform the custody, location and timing of energy usage, in particular, by enabling energy users to become PROSUMERS who can flow between net consumption or production of energy surpluses. The ascent of EVs and of renewable DERs are impactful on the transportation and energy sectors well as the raw materials, manufacturing, construction, and environment industries.African countries must develop and implement active E-Mobility policies to harness these impacts. It is not enough to passively rear-guard fossil fuel deposits, or to await the dumping of increasingly obsolete fossil-fuel vehicles, power generation, and spare parts. In time, laggard countries and their residents will be punished with climate-related penalties.