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Puma Energy, a part of the world-renowned Puma brand, will be rolling out charging stations for e-vehicles in Namibia. Towards this, Puma Energy will enter into partnerships with e-vehicle dealers across the country.
Puma Energy, a Singapore headquartered French company dealing with mid- and downstream oil products, has operations in more than 40 countries across continents. The company is expected to have at least more than two service stations equipped with charging points for electric cars by October. More will come up in due course of time, as Namibia is focussing on replacing fossil fuels with alternative sources of energy. Puma Energy is handholding with e-vehicle distributors and trying to tie up with them in setting up e-vehicle charging stations.
The company has put in place a strategy to meet the growing need for charging e-vehicles at every point the vehicles go through. The company realises that there should be a sync between the automobile sector and the growing need for drawing energy for such needs since e-vehicles, as of now, can travel only for limited hours because of the low storage capacity of batteries.
Meanwhile, studies show that on an average the slowest level 1 equipment, charging through a common residential 120-volt (120V) AC outlet, takes about 40-50 hours to charge a full battery of an electric vehicle (BEV) from empty. In the case of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), the time to recharge from empty to full will take 5 to 6 hours.
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The initiative is a part of the going-green initiative of Puma. Puma has solarised 25 retail stations, depots, and terminals in Namibia so far, having a combined capacity of 781KWp. This aggregates to an annual power generation of 1,337MWh. The generation of clean energy of this quantum is estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by 1,044 tons per annum.
