Mr. Alexandre Monteiro, Cape Verde’s Minister for Industry, announced that Cape Verde has seen decent demand for electric vehicles, with over 80 requests filed and almost half already fulfilled and circulating.

On April 14th, Cape Verde hosted, its first Workshop on the promotion of electric mobility in this territory, promoted by the Programme for the Promotion of Electric Mobility in Cabo Verde (ProMEC) that aims to improve the process of importing, acquiring and using electric vehicles, as well as contribute to the improvement of after-sales service,for both the public and private sectors.  

As part of this initiative, the government of Cape Verde has approved an incentives programme  to support the acquisition of 600 electric vehicles and installation of 100 charging stations. The implementation of this initiative is led by the National Directorate of Industry, Trade and Energy, under the ProMEC Project and funded by the NAMA Facility fund and with technical assistance from German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ).

The initial values of the incentives vary between a minimum of 88 thousand escudos (800 euros), for the acquisition of charging stations, and 5.5 million escudos (50 thousand euros), for the purchase of electric buses up to 17 seats .