Abuja, June 8, 2026 (AFP) - 'There's no E': Blackout-plagued Nigeria pursues EVs

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There are two ways to think about electric vehicles in Nigeria. The first is that it's beyond folly to own an EV in a place where power outages are a fixture of daily life: the few EV drivers around are known to occasionally charge their vehicles off diesel-guzzling, black-smoke-puffing building generators that complement the nation's faltering grid. The other is this: if it's possible to run an EV here, in a country where a vice president was on......

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