I. Introduction
According to report released by South Africa's uYilo Electric Mobility program in 2019, a total of 1,119 plug-in electric vehicles was sold at the end of 2019 [1]. This number includes battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) sold at the end of 2019 in South Africa as shown in Fig. 1. Of this number, 545 were BEVs and 574 were PHEVs. This means that South Africa now has a total of 1,119 electric vehicles on the road with 49% BEVs and 51% PHEVs. This number is considered very low as compared to other advanced EV markets such as China, Europe, and the United States of America (USA) [1]–[5]. BEVs have the highest market share of plug-in electric vehicles in South Africa at 49% even though it has only 3 models available in the market since its inception in 2015. The BMW i3 has shown to be the only brand that has been consistently available since the introduction of EVs in the country, hence, it has always topped the sales charts with 405 units sold at the end of 2019 [6], [7].