The South African Electric Car
With gas prices reaching record levels -- and with environmental concerns reaching a fever pitch -- an innovative Cape Town based company is emerging from the shadows of the city's Table Mountain to do battle with the best the automotive world can offer. This is the Joule, a fully electric vehicle that could be a game-changer for South Africa, and possibly the world. It might be small, but it features some state-of-the-art technologies that the company originally developed for the defense industry.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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