Plug-in hybrids are driving South Africa’s electric shift
South Africans bought more new-energy vehicles in the first nine months of 2026 than in the whole of last year, and most of them now of the plug-in variety. Plug-in hybrids outsell fully electric cars by more than 2.5 to one. Sales of new-energy vehicles – hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles – reached 22 389…