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ELECTRIC VEHICLES WHITE PAPER: STILL NEITHER GAZETTED NOR POSTED ON THE DTIC WEBSITE
- 11 December 2023
- Trade, Industry & Competition
- SA Legal Academy
The Electric Vehicles White Paper released on 4 December 2023 at a press briefing and the focus of several ensuing media articles has still not been gazetted. Neither is it to be found on the Department of Trade, Industry & Competition website, where one would have expected an accompanying ministerial media statement to be posted with a link to the document itself. Not even the National Government website has published the White Paper.
According to the Government Communication & Information System mouthpiece, SAnews, the document’s purpose is to ‘set a course’ for transitioning South Africa’s auto industry from ‘primarily producing internal combustion engine vehicles’ to a ‘dual platform’ that ‘includes electric vehicles in the production and consumption mix’.
A foreword to the document from Trade, Industry & Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel notes that this is in line with:
- the South African Automotive Masterplan’s ‘foundational objectives’
- changing export market demands, and
- the country’s ‘commitment to reducing greenhouse gases’.
According to the Minister, the White Paper ‘is grounded in the principle that decarbonisation should not lead to de-industrialisation but rather be leveraged for growth, deepening the automotive value chain’.
- White Paper
- SAnews article
- masterplan
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch