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Prof Chirwa’s AUVIV company intends to manufacture electric powered vehicles

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AUVIV Zambia Limited Chief Executive Officer Clive Chirwa says the company intends in the near future to manufacture electric-powered vehicles.

And Prof Chirwa told says AUVIV Zambia has the capacity to design and manufacture electric vehicles locally.

He told ZANIS in an exclusive interview that the firm will soon explore the market of electric vehicles in Zambia before embarking on the program.

Prof Chirwa notes that the country stands to benefit from clean energy vehicles once launched on the market.

He says currently the company is manufacturing diesel and petrol vehicles to meet the needs of the transport sector.

Meanwhile, Prof Chirwa says the company has sourced a piece of land where to set up a vehicle manufacturing plant in Kapiri Mposhi and that the plant will be established once the paperwork is completed with the local authority.

Earlier, Minister of Works and Supply Sylvia Chalikosa who graced the unveiling of the AUVIV buses today, at government complex, said Zambia is endowed with abundant resources required to manufacture electric vehicles.

She cited silver, gold, iron and rare metals as some of the minerals that can be used to manufacture vehicles.

Ms. Chalikosa implored AUVIV Zambia limited to cease the opportunity and venture into the manufacturing of electric vehicles.

27 COMMENTS

  1. Well done professor ! That’s the way to go. Now if we will be able to afford these vehicles… well that’s another story…

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    • Chriwa needs a Marketing firm for his company …he is doing the launch backwards. Get those PR Girl Media company to help your firm market across Africa.

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  2. Is it only me, I have been trying to search for this company AUVIV Zambia on internet but have drawn a blank. Does it even exist or it is in Chirwa’s head?

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  3. Excellent idea. Electric vehicles would greatly improve air quality in Lusaka especially, as there are too many petrol and diesel cars currently clogging up the air with pollutants. However, for this to succeed, Zesco will have to polish up its act and provide constant electricity to charging points.

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  4. Blah blah blah all this will just end up as an article on Lusaka Times….in reality nothing will happen..Chirwa is a conman he swindled the Michael Sata government and he lied about owning a mansion in the UK…AUVIV is not his company….he is just fronting but he likes acting big hence claiming that its his company

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  5. The only problem I have with Chriwa’s planning is he is launching as if he is an academic theorist, is the machinery in the country? Is the assembly plant or land purchased? Invite journalist on site with backdrop of your factory. Zambia with incompetent ZESCO is not ready for electric vehicles

    • Sadist. Are you ever happy with anything in your life? After studying psychology I learned that people like you are a reflection of your inner disappointments with yourself.its inner hate manifesting itself as a trivial critic

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    • You have to change your strategy you “N3z the coon”…if you studied psychology you should know that a person who lacks creativity and clones other people’s names like Kz for attention will never amount to nothing in life. You silly little teaspoon of a lowlife tell us a story about your muzungu wife when you are bored with playing Kz.

    • You have to change your strategy you “N3z the coon”…if you studied psychology you should know that a person who lacks creativity and clones other people’s names like Kz for attention will never amount to nothing in life. You s!lly little teaspoon of a lowlife tell us a story about your muz-ungu w.ife when you are bored with playing Kz.

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    • Tarino are you normal young man or woman? What are you talking about. One minute I am mushota next n8z then a muzungu wife. You seem to suffer from mental health issues. Seek help. I know a lot of friends who went that side of world and just lost their marbles. I hear life abroad can be tough. Better to be home than suffer in silence and take it out on online platforms. I am talking to you as a father and brother. Seek help

  6. With this launch prof chirwa should be about the only Zambian or African who qualifies to own a Bugatti since he’s about the only one capable of manufacturing one of the kind. Where are the pictures of the launch?

  7. Loadshedding and No power and
    How do you bring electric cars?
    Bring solar powered cars.Not suitable where there is power problems.

  8. Some people are only good at criticising and yet they have never built a single thing in their insignificant lives. To them their only achievement at death will be having adopted citizenship of their adopted country. Sad reality

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  9. That mini bus with seats and extra gadgets like gps and ati speed designed for the Zambian market is a good start.

    Well done Clive. Get the pricing right and let’s GRZ support this with a condition to have this assembled in Zambia with some parts made in Zambia , hopefully GRZ support won’t be based on bribes per usual.

    • These are things he should be talking about but Clive is not a businessman but an inventor and scientist…people like Elon Reeve Musk have chief operating officer to handle that side of the business…Clive needs to that

  10. The Thirteenth disciple, you are not alone. I dud google this company when he first came to announce it with government ministers. I posted on LT the little that I discovered.
    1. The current directors are Clive Chirwa and his wife.
    2 Previously two sons were also direvtors but not any more.
    3. It seems to be registered in UK but seems to be on paper only as there are no accounts or other business details.
    Look, to be a commercial bus manufacturer requires huge resources. You tell me aoa pene ba bwekela ku UK after his ZRL stint ba Clive baba ni ba big enterpreneur? What was he doing being a ZRL MD if he was a big bus producer? I wonder why Zambians like to be conned even on simple verifiable matters. Even governnent ministers sure? Anyway, what do you from PF dunderheads?

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