Jet Motor Company, which was founded in 2018 by a team of
passionate professionals, started with its flagship brand, the Jet Mover, a
multipurpose van, to push the acceptance and use of locally made vehicles.
However, the company said its main aim was the production of
electric vehicles and after about three years of research, testing and
iterative development, they were finally able to achieve their objective with
JET EV.
This commitment to the future of electric mobility earned
Jet Systems Automobile Industries Limited the Nigeria Auto Journalists
Association (NAJA) ‘Electric Vehicle Company of the Year’ award on February 9,
2023.
Thus, Jet Systems electric vehicle is the first fully
locally-made electric vehicle to run on the Nigerian road. The new electric
vehicle was made to have zero emissions and is eco-friendly.
Recently, Jet Motor said they have seen the need to prepare
the country and the continent for the future of mobility. In a bid to preserve
the environment, the world is making a gradual shift from combustion engines to
electric vehicles.
The company said it also plans to introduce more products
that would meet different needs of mobility options at a budget-friendly price,
in addition to innovating to provide energy solutions as it relates to electric
vehicles.
Reacting to his company’s emergence as the Electric Vehicle
Company of the Year award, Sanjay Rupani, Director of Sales and marketing
stated that, “We are delighted to have received the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA)
award. We interpret this recognition as a challenge to accomplish more in terms
of development and innovation.
He said Jet Systems has set out ambitious future plans to
ensure that the transformation in the e- mobility space is intensified across
Nigeria to promote the adoption of E-mobility and to educate the public on
electric vehicles (EVs). “We will also encourage relevant stakeholders
such as governments at various levels,
financiers, investors, general public, and the other assemblers to come
together and develop the policies that will promote the systems.
“While the rest of the world is progressively phasing out
combustion engine vehicles, Nigeria still depends heavily on fossil fuels. So,
Jet Motor has seen the need to prepare the country and the continent for the
future of mobility.
“We wanted to create a global product that is built to last.
We were obsessed with getting it right because, if our vehicles can work well
on Nigerian and African roads, they can succeed anywhere in the world.
Generally, our testing has led us to see what is best for the Nigerian and
African market and that is what we have built with Jet Mover.”
Rupani identified the target audience of Jet Electric
Vehicles in the country to include all ministries, departments and agencies
(MDAs) of government, corporate entities, schools, transport companies and
other logistics support providers.
He expressed hope that some of the impediments towards
vehicle electrification in Nigeria such epileptic power source, high cost of
acquisition, lack of government initiatives to encourage and promote the
adoption of EV and inadequate charging infrastructure can be addressed.
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company, Oluwemimo Osanipin said automotive assemblers
in Nigeria are challenged by inconsistent government policies as it relates to
the auto industry, poor infrastructure for instance, the power supply.
The COO also frowned at the cost of funding in Nigeria which
he noted is extremely high and as much as 28 percent annually, adding that besides the current
duty structure in the country that is unfavorable for assemblers, the
hydra-headed problems of multiple taxes, porous border that facilitates the influx
of gray importation remains a major concern that hampers auto assemblers’
bottomline.
He said the expectations of electric vehicle assemblers from
the federal government should be to initiate policies that will encourage
people to invest in EVs and also encourage their use. He also appealed to the
government to offer consumers and assemblers incentives that will aid the
speedy adoption of EVs, (both financial and non-financial), and for it to
improve the policy that supports local raw material production and
infrastructure.
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