Ray of hope for sub-Saharan Africa's paratransit: Solar charging of urban electric minibus taxis in South Africa

Abraham, Chris Joseph; Rix, Arnold J.; Ndibatya, Innocent; Booysen, M.J.

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2021.08.003

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“…Other studies related to EV prospects in Africa have explored the need for a more systemic approach to data collection to enhance EV studies in Africa ( Collett and Hirmer, 2021 ); the importance of designing EV systems that are context-specific for Africa ( Collett et al., 2021 ); electricity demand implications of solar-charging urban minibus EVs in South Africa ( Abraham et al., 2021 ); grid impact of electrifying minibus taxis in Kampala, Uganda ( Booysen et al., 2022 ); the feasibility of car park owners to provide solar PV carports for EV charging in South Africa ( Buresh et al., 2020 ); and the potential minibuses in Cairo, Nairobi, and Cape Town toward promoting environmental sustainability ( Odhiambo et al., 2021 ). An overarching analysis on the nexus between electrification and renewable energy deployment in developing countries proposed EV integration to maximize the use of excess electricity production from VRES ( Bamisile et al., 2021 ).…”

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“…The original energy consumption estimates by Abraham et al [9] and Hull et al [12] were 0.93 kWh/km and 0.39 kWh/km, respectively. This section shows how these two values converged when the anomalies mentioned previously were resolved.…”

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“…The two simulations were repeated with the exact same configurations given in Abraham et al [9] and Hull et al [12]. Although Hull et al's 0.39 kWh was replicated successfully, repeating Abraham et al's simulation resulted in a consumption of 0.88 kWh/km.…”

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Aligned Simulation Models for Simulating Africa’s Electric Minibus Taxis

Abraham,

Rix,

Booysen

2023

WEVJ

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Planning for the eventual electrification of transport in sub-Saharan Africa requires accurate simulation of its unique transport systems. The few studies that attempt to model electric minibus taxis—vehicles extensively used in sub-Saharan Africa’s public transport systems—vary greatly in their results. This paper analyses, compares and corrects the only two existing studies that project energy consumption of electric minibus taxis in the region. One of the studies projected an energy consumption of 0.39 kWh/km, while the other projected 0.93 kWh/km. This paper carefully analyses the simulation tools and models and cumulatively applies corrections from the literature and scientific analyses. As a result, the discrepancy between the two simulation tools is eliminated for a given data input and a final energy consumption is estimated in the range of 0.49–0.52 kWh/km, depending on the input data.

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“…This chapter builds on the authors' investigation into the possibilities for solar charging of eMBTs in South Africa [38]. We assess the energy requirements of the paratransit system from the perspectives of two mobility data collection methods: using handheld mobile devices, and using GPS devices fixed in the taxis.…”

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e-Quantum leap on a data highway: Planning for electric minibus taxis in sub-Saharan Africa's paratransit system

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Ndibatya³

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Minibus taxis are ubiquitous in the developing cities of the Global South. This versatile, and somewhat chaotic public transport system is now faced with the need to move to renewable energy. But the looming roll-out of electric vehicles poses a threat to the already fragile electrical grids of African cities. This chapter evaluates the energy requirements of decarbonisation and evaluates two types of data, passenger-based and vehicle-based, from research in South Africa that has modelled these taxis. Using these two data capture methods, we assess the energy requirements and charging opportunities for electric minibus paratransit in three African cities and compare the results of the two methods to assess their suitability for planning minibus taxi electrification.

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Ray of hope for sub-Saharan Africa's paratransit: Solar charging of urban electric minibus taxis in South Africa

Cited by 31 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring the role of electric vehicles in Africa's energy transition: A Nigerian case study

Exploring the role of electric vehicles in Africa's energy transition: A Nigerian case study

Aligned Simulation Models for Simulating Africa’s Electric Minibus Taxis

e-Quantum leap on a data highway: Planning for electric minibus taxis in sub-Saharan Africa's paratransit system

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