Burkina Faso Unveils First Indigenous Electric Vehicle
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Discover Burkina Faso's first fully indigenous electric vehicle, the ITAOUA. Designed and manufactured in Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso has introduced its first fully indigenous electric vehicle (EV), the ITAOUA. Designed and manufactured entirely by Burkinabe engineers, the ITAOUA boasts an impressive range of 330 kilometers after just a 30-minute charge, as reported by the car manufacturer. The first two models of the brand are called Native and Sahel.

The production facility, situated in the prestigious Ouaga 2000 district of the capital, is the brainchild of a visionary Burkinabe entrepreneur aiming to position the nation as a technological leader in the region. The company emphasised, “Burkina Faso has just proven that innovation is not the preserve of great powers, but that it can also germinate, grow, and radiate from the heart of Sahel in Africa.”

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    18 hours ago

    Unfortunately that’s just not true, this car (ITAOUA Sahel) is a rebadged Dongfeng Nanobox EV, it’s not a fully indigenous EV, it’s made in Hubei, China; and based on a Renault platform, it’s basically an electric Renault Kwid made in China.

    It is true that the indigenous label may not be fully accurate. However, this doesn’t mean that this wasn’t made in Burkina Faso as you later mentioned. This news expands on this: https://www.toutiao.com/article/7468169115267416595/?upstream_biz=doubao&source=m_redirect

    As you can see from the appearance of this vehicle, it comes from Dongfeng Nano 01. This is also a common way of producing automobiles. It is exported to foreign countries through scattered parts. Their country is responsible for simple assembly work and then puts a local brand on it.

    In fact, our automobile industry also developed in this way. We started by importing spare parts, and then gradually developed our own automobile industry.

    It can be seen that there are some slight differences between this car and Dongfeng Nano in the front bumper surround. Currently, almost all parts of this car are imported from China.

    But I believe that with the development of time, their country will gradually have a certain industrial production capacity, such as the production of simple plastic parts and covering parts