25th June, 2023
By Grace Alegba
The Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE) says it has begun collaboration with local and foreign automobile companies towards setting up electric car assembly plants in the nation.
NIMechE National Chairperson, Dr Funmilade Akingbagbohun, gave the hint on Saturday night while making her opening speech during the association’s 2023 fellowship conferment ceremony in Victoria Island, Lagos.
She reeled out achievements of her administration in capacity-building programmes for members, young engineers and tertiary institutions to enhance innovations.
The chairperson said her office was already building a world-class engineering academy on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to equip engineers with the knowledge needed to compete and contribute to national development.
She said a partnership had begun with Innoson Motors and Toyota towards the assembly of electric cars in Nigeria.
“We have also partnered and collaborated with Innoson Motors in terms of capacity-building training for automobile assembly in Nigeria, our focus is on electric vehicles that are coming up.
“If we are not ready to take that industry, other people that are not engineers or mechanical engineers will take up the industry, so, we are partnering with Innoson Motors, we are partnering with Toyota Nigeria Ltd and Toyota is sponsoring curriculum in collaboration with us,” she said.
(NAN)