MAPUTO, May 4 (Xinhua) — The Mozambican authorities intends to arrange an electrical automobile battery plant within the nation to fulfill the rising demand of home and worldwide markets, a senior official has stated.
“In the coming years, we are thinking of introducing electric vehicles, and even next year we would like to start assembling electric buses in the country. And for that we need batteries, and we have raw materials to produce batteries,” stated Mateus Magala, the Transport and Communications Minister of Mozambique, on Wednesday.
The Southeast African nation is without doubt one of the world’s most vital producers of graphite, which is the important thing uncooked materials in lithium batteries for electrical automobiles.
Mozambique is supplying Tesla with uncooked supplies to provide electrical batteries and expects extra investments from Japan sooner or later, Magala stated at a press convention with visiting Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yamada Kenji, who arrived right here at some point in the past.