Author: esgfrontiers

I fancied an electric vehicle.  Let’s change that, I drove one, enjoyed the ride and got the curious stares. That was around three to four years ago when my ex-colleague at Rio Tinto, Gugu Lourie brought the massive BMW i8 for me to try out. Lourie runs the hugely successful TechFinancials, showcasing some of the most progressive developments in the 4IR tech space and had attracted the attention of vehicle manufacturers as he covered that sweet nexus of vehicle opulence and digitalisation. That ride was enormously rewarding that weekend, the car’s hybrid engines could accelerate easily enough to put the VRR-phah…