This document outlines the local-level challenges and impacts of the transition to electric

This policy briefing explores a City’s response options to enable and manage electric

This briefing note, funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), represents an initial investigation into a potential electricity tariff structure for electric vehicles (EVs) for the City of Cape Town. It draws on international experience and local knowledge, concerns and expectations based on a review of literature and targeted interviews. This note provides recommendations for taking the discussion further but does not propose a specific tariff structure. Further development of the City’s EV strategy (in the form of the EV Framework) is needed to clarify the City’s objectives that will inform the most appropriate EV tariff.

This is technical brief that that explain the open source spreadsheet calculator for comparing the greenhouse gas emissions of conventional internal combustion engine powered passenger cars to that of battery electric vehicles (charged from the national grid) and non-plug in hybrids1 in the South African context (SEA, 2016).