Justus Visagie set another record by driving a BMW i4 M50 sports sedan from BMW Joburg City to BMW Cape Town City in 19 hours and 15 minutes.
This was the first attempt at setting a record from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Previously he had done the drive starting from the other side, Cape Town to Johannesburg. This time, he also split the journey into two, spending the night at a B&B in Hanover in the Northern Cape, 700 km south of Johannesburg.
There are just over 1,000 battery-electric vehicles in South Africa at the moment. Although the charging infrastructure is not yet as extensive as in Europe and other places, it is growing all the time. One can now comfortably drive along South Africa’s major highways, and as Justus says, there are no queues yet a charging stations in South Africa.
As for the cost of charging, Visagie says it came to approximately R120 per 100 km or R1.20 per kilometer for the BMW i4 and around R130 per 100 km for the larger Mercedes-EQS. “That’s good value for money, but it’s worth noting that charging at home is roughly 60 percent cheaper. Running the BMW on Eskom power would cost only 50 cents per kilometre,” he explains.
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