{"id":12043,"date":"2026-01-08T22:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:12:15","slug":"from-aspiration-to-acceleration-the-ev-models-revving-up-clean-energy-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12043\/","title":{"rendered":"From Aspiration To Acceleration: The EV Models Revving Up Clean Energy In South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, BYD launched its highly\u00a0anticipated\u00a0compact city EV, the Dolphin Surf, at R339,000 ($19,865) for the Comfort model and R389,000 ($22,795) for the Dynamic, making it the first EV priced under R400,000 ($23,439) in South Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is notable, considering the launch price of the BMW i3 in 2015 was R525,000 ($30,760), and when adjusted for inflation, would cost ~R860,000 ($50,387) today.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September, BYD launched its highly\u00a0anticipated\u00a0compact city EV, the Dolphin Surf, at R339,000 ($19,865) for the Comfort model&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,1073],"class_list":{"0":"post-12043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}