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TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa

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TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa - autojosh

Total Energies Marketing Ghana PLC commissions its first Electric Vehicle (EV) charging unit in Accra, Ghana.

Level 2 charging unit is part of efforts to boost the increasing demand and usage of Electric vehicles in Ghana.

TotalEnergies Ghana says aim is to meet Paris Climate Ambition of Net Zero by 2050 by reducing carbon emissions.

MD Mr. Babajide says it is first in the whole of West Africa as no service station has an EV charging unit in the whole of West Africa.





TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa - autojosh

TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC has commissioned its first Electric Vehicle (EV) charging unit in Ghana. The EV charging unit located at the Liberation Road TotalEnergies Service Station in Accra, is part of efforts to boost the increasing demand and usage of Electric vehicles in Ghana.

Managing Director of TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC, Mr. Olufemi Babajide in his address indicated that the EV charging unit is the first in the whole of West Africa. He added that the level 2 charging unit with about 22 kilowatts will take about 2 hours to fully charge a vehicle.

TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa - autojosh

“This is the first in the whole of West Africa. So this is not just Ghana but there is no service station in all of West Africa that has an Electric Vehicle charging unit”.

According to Babajide, the aim is to reduce the carbon footprint and support the Paris Climate Ambition by meeting the target of Net Zero by 2050 by reducing carbon emissions.

TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa - autojosh





TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa - autojosh

To enhance customer experience, Mr. Olufemi Babajide also announced that the company had introduced an added service of providing free wi-fi at some selected TotalEnergies Service Stations.

Senior Vice President at TotalEnergies Marketing and Services Africa, Mr. Jean Philippe Torres also emphasized on plans by TotalEnergies to support countries committed to the development of Electric charging units.

TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana Commissions Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Units, First In West Africa - autojosh

He said :

“The demand for supporting new types of mobility comes from all over the continent. Today, TotalEnergies’ objective is to support the development of electric charging units in countries that have a proactive approach about electric mobility.

“All countries can count on TotalEnergies to support them in the deployment of adapted infrastructures. We can respond on a case-by-case basis thanks to our wide network of service stations throughout the territory and by relying on solid partnerships.”





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