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From what I can find, it’s based on the Chinese Dongfeng Nammi Box
Similar to how the Ford Explorer EV is based on Volkswagen’s MEB platform (same one as most of their EVs like the ID.3)
so calling it 100% indigenous is a bit of a stretch. However, while researching this, there was a lot of anti-AES nonsense and propaganda, so hard to say if the downplaying is more untrue than the claim of 100% indigenous. I can’t find any hard information on this vehicle at all. It’s either fluff pieces or racists saying that it’s not possible that Africans could do it on their own.
Regardless, progress for Burkina Faso is a very good thing to see
I was gonna say, there is no way it's 100% domestic. I don't think any country in the world other than China can build something as complex as a car without importing parts, post-globalization.
I don't even know how you would accurately quantify something like that.
Yeah I keep seeing this posted everywhere even though it's obviously not true, the way it is phrased.
I think "100% assembled" is probably the more accurate term they mean. Not to downplay the importance of that, though - assembling components means you have colossally more control over where you import from, the tariffs you're subject to, and the countries you want to deal with. Aside from the obvious value increase in assembly.
Yeah it takes a lot of skilled labour to assemble vehicles over just importing them. Opens the door to localising production of components too, in a much more granular and manageable fashion for a country that has limited resources to invest at once.
It’s the same wordplay as “made with 100% real cheese” where the 100% describes real, ie real cheese is involved somewhere in the process, but not all of the cheese in the product is real. But the average person will read it as meaning that there is no “fake” (non-dairy) cheese.
Non-dairy? Usually the filler is whey.
Yeah, this is a generally BK made car, like how the Holden brand were typically variants of GM cars (except for the late model Commodores where it was the other way round and became the Pontiac G8)
If I get a body and neck from the US, electronics from China, and hardware from Japan, I'm still 100% building a guitar in Norway.
Was the VW Beetle that was built in latin america up to 2009 "Made in Germany"?
In the Western capitalist sense that we apply to 99% of our commodities, it's 100% Burkinabe for sure.