part of efforts towards achieving clean energy and industrial diversification, the federal government has set a target to ensure that at least 30 per cent of locally produced vehicles in Nigeria are electric.

Minister of State for Industry, Trade, and Investment, John Uwan-Enoh, disclosed this yesterday at the unveiling of Africa’s largest locally assembled electric vehicle (EV) charging station and the launch of locally manufactured electric buses and taxis by an Abuja-based mobility startup, New Electric Vehicles (NEV) in Abuja.

He stated that the government’s plan, encapsulated in the National Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP), aims to boost local content in vehicle manufacturing by 40 per cent, increase domestic vehicle production to one million units, and create 200,000 jobs in the sector.

His words: “I think that a lot of Nigerians look at electric vehicles as impossible. I mean, people are not able to accommodate that in their heads. So it’s significant for me that this is happening.

“And those who have the opportunity of being in this event are able to see this. I was looking at the National Automotive Industrial Development Plan and all of its milestones.

“These milestones, the first is to increase the local content of locally manufactured vehicles by about 40 per cent and also to see whether we’ll be able to produce at least one million vehicles locally and see how we can increase the number of jobs that are available in this sector to about 200,000.

“And most of all, to see how we can increase the local production of electric vehicles by 30 per cent”, the minister said.


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