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An indigenous firm, Nigus Enfinity, has disclosed its plan to introduce electric vehicles into the Nigerian automobile market in 2018. The Firm also stated that its local assembly plant for electric vehicles will be ready in 2020.


Chairman of the company, Malik Ado-Ibrahim, disclosed this during an interactive session with journalists on Thursday, in Abuja.

Ado-Ibrahim stated that several countries across the world have set targets for the ban of petrol-fuelled vehicles with India targeting 2030, and the United Kingdom, 2040.

According to him, Nigeria and need to take immediate steps join the automotive revolution or risk becoming dumping grounds for banned vehicles from other countries.

Ado-Ibrahim, who is the first African to lead the Formula 1 Team global race car competition in 1999, said his firm is already building a 100 megawatts (mw) solar power plant in Katsina and another in Adamawa state.

He stated that the company has also partnered with Build Your Dreams, a Chinese firm, to import electric vehicles at affordable costs from 2018.

“We are also working with BYD to get a local brand and start an electric vehicle assembly plant for Nigeria from 2020. Gradually we will move to an EV with the African DNA starting in Nigeria,” he said.

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