Funny.

I dont know how Ben Bruce is thinking.

You want to kill the mainstay of your economy by law.

To enact such a law will mean that companies will stop investing in refining petrol in Nigeria in the next few years.

Really funny proposition to say the least.

Coming at a time Dangote is building the world'ss largest refinery in Nigeria.

What do you call this now? Complete absence of common sense.

Pavore9:


How viable will it be setting up a solar charging station in somewhere like Lagos and clients swap their batteries for home use? (Though the North would have been ideal in terms of generation)

I know of a guy who set up a charging point in his house here in Abuja with the use of Solar panels, a 2.5kv inverter and 6 pieces of 2v 4000ah batteries which he uses to charge his Volvo XC jeep which is completely electric.

The jeep can be charged natively from a wall socket but since he was on prepaid metering, he noticed that it was draining his credit hence he had to go solar.

The car obtains full charge within 2 hours and can cover over 150km at a single charge.

He spent over a million naira for the project which also powers part of his house

*POWER GENERATION AS AN INDEX OF DEVELOPMENT*

China. 5,682,000,000MW
USA. 4,324,000,000MW
India. 1,368,000,000MW
Japan. 995,000,000MW
UK. 338,000,000MW
Nigeria. 5,000MW

Copied: African Outlook.


This is more reason we need to start phasing out petrol vehicles. Our leaders are thieves and will never give this country the power generation and power self sufficiency it needs. So let us use our generators to power our electric vehicles. Even the petrol sef is scarce. Very soon the idiots will increase fuel to 200 naira per litre. At least we won't be consuming too much petrol even if they remove subsidy. Damn country.

maryjames9:


Guy, if you cannot afford to buy a generator and fuel it to charge your electric car, there will be charging point everywhere just like there are filling stations. These charging points will get devices that charges your cat within seconds. You will have to pay a stipend to charge these cars to full bars. This is a welcome development. At least you SE and SS people will have your oil to yourself as we won't need it that much except to charge our cars.

You're spot on !
They're illiterate and ignorant and needs be told the whole world is moving towards clean air mobility to free our polluted world.
We can't continue to wait for the backward people.

prince3009:


I know of a guy who set up a charging point in his house here in Abuja with the use of Solar panels, a 2.5kv inverter and 6 pieces of 2v 4000ah batteries which he uses to charge his Volvo XC jeep which is completely electric.

The jeep can be charged natively from a wall socket but since he was on prepaid metering, he noticed that it was draining his credit hence he had to go solar.

The car obtains full charge within 2 hours and can cover over 150km at a single charge.

He spent over a million naira for the project which also powers part of his house

For what he is saving on PMS and partial powering of his house, the amount he spent is wise spending.

Observer007:
This is just waste of news space and readers' time. When the right time comes we won't need all these bills sponsoring and debates; we would be compelled to adjust willy-nilly.

Thanks.

This the common sense way to go.

These law makers are jobless.

Of all the things in Nigeria begging for attention they are here talking about electric cars.

Where are the laws to make certain lands only accessible for agriculture?

What are the laws to make agric lands affordable, so as o promote massive emplyment in that sector?

Where are the laws to prohibit multiple taxation?

Many more...

Dee60:

Funny.

I dont know how Ben Bruce is thinking.

You want to kill the mainstay of your economy by law.

To enact such a law will mean that companies will stop investing in refining petrol in Nigeria in the next few years.

Really funny proposition to say the least.

Coming at a time Dangote is building the world'ss largest refinery in Nigeria.

What do you call this now? Complete absence of common sense.

Nigeria your country and your law makers are the ones who have complete absense of common sense. The world wants to cut down emissions by going green. Even OPEC has asked oil producing countries to cut down their daily oil production in half (Nigeria's daily bpd production is 7,000 and they have asked Nigeria to cut it down to 2,500 before or by April 2020 and totally stop gas flaring)

Any country that does not comply will be sanction with low patronage of oil sales which Nigeria heavily relies on.

Now if it happens, who loses?

prince3009:


I know of a guy who set up a charging point in his house here in Abuja with the use of Solar panels, a 2.5kv inverter and 6 pieces of 2v 4000ah batteries which he uses to charge his Volvo XC jeep which is completely electric.

The jeep can be charged natively from a wall socket but since he was on prepaid metering, he noticed that it was draining his credit hence he had to go solar.

The car obtains full charge within 2 hours and can cover over 150km at a single charge.

He spent over a million naira for the project which also powers part of his house

There are electric cars in Lagos.

Once people realize it is good economics they will follow the route....

We dont need any laws banning or unbanning!

Dee60:

Funny.

I dont know how Ben Bruce is thinking.

You want to kill the mainstay of your economy by law.

To enact such a law will mean that companies will stop investing in refining petrol in Nigeria in the next few years.

Really funny proposition to say the least.

Coming at a time Dangote is building the world'ss largest refinery in Nigeria.

What do you call this now? Complete absence of common sense.

Very soon, demand for these petrol will fall drastically, by then, there won't be any mainstay of economy. Other nations are exporting agricultural products, technology, medicine, pharmaceutical innovations, engineering products, weapons.... While you are only stuck with oyel. No OYO you dey. Lazy country, lazy youths. Lazy states. By now I expect all states to be producing her food and feeding her citizens, I expect universities to be generating her electricity via wastes, by now we should have started growing up. A over 50 year old man who cannot provide food for himself is a useless man. Nigeria is over 50 yet we cannot provide food, water and other things for ourselves except we import or travel out to get these things. Shame.

Wow

I don't understand how Ekweremadu thinks.

So because we sell oyel we can't have electric cars.

See how a "seasoned" senator and a whole deputy senate president thinks.

Nigerians will surely need electric cars in nearest future or else we continue to be third world, But we cant even produce enough megawatts for domestic use,

maryjames9:


It will do well. If you can afford an electric car, you can afford the car charger or charge it at designated charging stations. Those stations will still open as Nigerians are going to do business out of these electric car charging stations. You people should stop displaying crass ignorance.

and how will do so called charging stations generate thier power when we barely have 2000 megawatts to meet basic needs ?

The end of petrol car is in sight, if we want, we can flow with a new trend or wait until our crude becomes useless.

No no no. Let the oil dry up so this sharing money matter will stop.

eleojo23:
How will we even charge the electric cars with this our epileptic power supply?

We won't because they will never fix the electricity problem in the country, they want us to keep buying their generators

Yes you can the Mitsubishi Outlander EV has a mobile charging device that can plug into a three pin English socket .

slimfit1:
Nigerians are so funny, where is the power to charge the car the only alternative is hybrid. We like to sound important all the time. Even in the UK, you can not plug it using domestic charger.

slimfit1:
Nigerians are so funny, where is the power to charge the car the only alternative is hybrid. We like to sound important all the time. Even in the UK, you can not plug it using domestic charger.

This where we have to think outside the box we can build and have special designated charging ports to charge electric cars at certain price.

What's the essence of crude oil without refinery.

Bossontop:
I neva see any set of pipu wey hate development and progress like nigerians.......so if oyel finish today naija go follow finish be dat abii??.......no any oda source of foreign exchange abii??......isorait

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Please, mention the man that made the suggestion. His name is EKWEREMADU not *Nigerians*.
Thank you.

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omenkaLives:
Please, mention the mention that made the suggestion. His name is EKWEREMADU not *Nigerians*.
Thank you.

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AutoJoshNG:


The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that sought to phase out the use of petrol cars and introduce electric cars in Nigeria by the year 2035.

The bill was sponsored by Sen Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP, Bayelsa). The senator told his colleagues that combustion cars were causing pollution and contribute to global warming and that developed countries were gradually phasing them out.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce in his argument had argued that electric cars are healthy, economical and would not deplete the ozone layer.

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has said that, as an oil producing country, sale of electric cars in Nigeria should be frustrated. He said this while kicking against the bill.

The bill ignited debates in the hallowed chamber, as each senator aired reasons for the rejection of the bill.

In his submission, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu commended Murray-Bruce for his “uncommon common sense and brilliant ideas,” but noted that the ancillary to Section 41 of the 1999 Constitution grants Nigerians freedom of movement; and that there is no need to introduce a law to mandate the use of electric cars.

Continuing, Ekweremadu said, “Besides, in economic sense, we are an oil producing country. So, we should do everything possible to frustrate the sale of electric cars in Nigeria to enable us to sell our oil.”

Senator Barau Jibrin (APC-Kano) said while electric vehicles no doubt would be more friendly to the environment and health, making its use mandatory was not feasible.

“We have to look at individual net-worth. Not all Nigerians can afford the vehicles at a given time.

“We all know the importance of vehicles in our daily activities. So, banning use of fuel cars will cause hardship, particularly for those who may not be able to acquire electric cars.

Murray-Bruce withdrew the bill ultimately.

SOURCE: https://autojosh.com/senator-ike-ekweremadu-electric-car-bill/

right step in the right direction

Hmm yes as an oil producing country we don't need it, because we have to promote our product cause charity begins at home(but I also wish we can have it). By the way if we import am where the light or electricity to charge with this our NEPA. Mtchew fi mi le jo

These men should be ashamed of themselves.... the ones they represent should be embarrassed. These are the people stuck in the past.... determined not to move the country forward... no vision... no concern about this and following generations stuck with obsolete technology. Do they want Nigeria to be like Cuba? We already see the big car makers shifting their old car assembly plants here at the red carpet invitation of the FG. We produce oil... so we should frustrate the introduction of electric cars.... do the cars run on oil?

China will banned petrol car by 2030 euro 2025 Nigeria want to frustrate the rest of the world.

Nigeria problem dey spiritual

They don't have to frustrate it,it should be allowed but not mandated by law to be use by either individuals,private businesses or government parastatals. Let those interested in it buy it. Besides it will be costly so many people will still be using the fuel vehicles

Go to Saudi Arabia the main thing the govt is working towards is Saudi without oil. And they have start investing every where from computer GPU and if not for the Trump govt want to buy Tesla .


We are here with expired ppl in govt in nigeria

Ben Bruce is a funny man we shud be thinking of constant power supply before electric cars. That’s the issue here.

This man is mad!!!!

I’d suggest everyone watches David Attenborough’s documentary Climate Change - The Facts. It was very informative. Everyone has a role to play or we are on the verge of planetary disaster.

do we always need a law for everything? all we need is a simple policy to get things working. even simple dedication would need a new law before heading for toilet.

We go charge with the electricity wey dey your pričk

Nonsense

festacman:
We cannot refine our crude oil in our several refineries and cannot meet local production.
Our power infrastructure is in complete tatters.
Our universities are glorified secondary schools.
Our steel industry is a still birth.
Getting prepaid meters is a favour and privilege
Our rail infrastructure is merely basic.
Our airports and seaports are jokes.
Our custom doesn't use scanners.
Our ...

How making electric car compulsory became a priority to distinguished Senator Ben Bruce a couple weeks to the end his tenure beats me hollow!

Abeg helep he ask twitter senator watin we go take charge the car?
Maybe him go buy petrol to charge generator to charge electric car before he can drive out. Some people (especially women) already on 5kva generator to charge phones.