Roller Coaster of a Pan-African Automotive Market
- Inside Auto Industry Diplomacy
February 2024.Hardly African countries stabilise and facilitate trade with neighbours, their integration is breaking up while vehicle manufacturers need investment certainty and a transborder ecosystem. Dave Coffey, CEO of AAAM provides an insier’s account what has been achieved in auto industry diplomacy so far. Can indigenous carmakers benefit? Will development of free trade zones wither away? What about batteries, or alternative fuels? Understanding fragile economies and economic loopholes.
Includes data on current vehicle production volumes of selected countries, African carmakers, a glimpse of battery minerals initiatives, an overview on who really has a say in investments or continental market developments.
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