{"id":34387,"date":"2022-07-21T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/shift-to-electric-cars-museveni-tells-ugandans"},"modified":"2022-07-21T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:33:55","slug":"shift-to-electric-cars-museveni-tells-ugandans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/shift-to-electric-cars-museveni-tells-ugandans","title":{"rendered":"Shift to electric cars, Museveni tells Ugandans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni has urged Ugandans to shift to electric cars as the country joins global powers to contain a looming recession amid climate change concerns world over.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the answer. The correct way is to start moving away from petrol to electric cars and we have already started,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

A hybrid 5-seater Ugandan made Kiira Electric Vehicle (EV) costs over Shs100million in a country whose GDP per capita just hit $1,046 at the start of FY2022\/23, government data shows.<\/p>\n

But Mr Museveni said one of the designers of the Kiira EVs, Paul Musasizi, told him that \u2013for instance- an electric bus uses Shs360 per km which is almost five times cheaper than a similar fossil fuel bus (using Shs1, 600 per km).<\/p>\n

\u201cElectric vehicles are cheaper, cleaner, have no pollution and apparently have less maintenance cost,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n

Appearing to fall back on his earlier slam at the COP26 declaration by world leaders to have zero new vehicle emission by 2040 in leading markets, Mr Museveni said: \u201cThis is the solution we should go for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than 2 per cent of Uganda\u2019s more than 44 million people own a car with fuel prices approaching Shs7, 000 ($1.8) in a beleaguered economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fuel is likely going to remain high. Even when our petrol is here, we will have to sell it at the world price minus the transport costs,\u201d Mr Museveni disclosed.<\/p>\n

The president noted that Uganda needs Shs20billion to develop more affordable electric automotives while crisis after crisis has also awakened government to breathe new life in Uganda\u2019s long-dead railway networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce people get tired of expensive diesel, they will shift to the train. Fortunately, the railway system for Pakwach-Gulu-Tororo is there and they are repairing it,\u201d he said.
\nMr Museveni added: \u201cWe are now repairing the old railway metre gauge from Tororo to Kampala. The only problem maybe Kasese because the railway line was vandalized and we shall have to build a totally new one there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Paying the price\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Museveni, 77, viewed that endless pandemic outbreaks and current global warming marked by wildfires and temperatures soaring over 40 degrees Celsius in parts of Europe are a price the universe is paying for \u201cartificial problems caused by man\u2019s attempt to challenge God\u2019s might.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unprecedented climate change has already taken toll on Uganda with food production projected to double-slump in the remainder of 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest problem now is that we can no longer have plenty in this kind of situation,\u201d Mr Museveni warned.<\/p>\n

\u2018Not like Sri Lanka\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Additionally, the Ugandan leader since 1986- warned that subsidies on essentials would trigger an atmosphere identifiable with scenes that ended over 15-yearss of the Rajapaksa dynasty in bankrupt Sri-Lanka.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you subsidize, you create an artificial comfort for people to think that things are normal and they don\u2019t leave frugally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou bleed yourself when you encroach on your foreign reserves which are now more than Shs4billion,\u201d Mr Museveni emphasized in a July 20 night address many perceive to have offered no solutions to Uganda’s raging economic crisis.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. President Museveni has urged Ugandans to shift to electric cars as the country joins global powers to contain a looming recession amid climate change concerns world over. \u201cThis is the answer. The correct way is to start moving away from petrol to electric cars and we have already started,\u201d Mr Museveni said. 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