Watts & Wheels Ep 3: ‘We drive the new Dongfeng Box’

Published: 2025-08-11 16:12 +02:00 by Watts & Wheels tag: Motoring

The Dongfeng Box is one of South Africa’s newest budget EV contenders, and Watts & Wheels has driven it.

The Dongfeng Box electric city runabout has landed in South Africa, and Watts & Wheels has taken the vehicle – one of the cheapest electric cars currently on sale in the country – for a test drive.

One of China’s biggest and oldest motoring manufacturers, the state-owned Dongfeng Motor Corporation has identified South Africa as a key export market and, through E Auto Motor , has launched the brand in South Africa – starting with the Dongfeng Box, whose pricing begins at R460 000.

Watts & Wheels hosts William Kelly and Duncan McLeod take the Box for a drive around Johannesburg and share their thoughts on this intriguing and relatively low-cost hatchback designed for urban and city driving.

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Also in this final episode of the three-part pilot season of Watts & Wheel, William and Duncan get animated about:

The state of the EV charging infrastructure market in South Africa – and is it overtraded?; A new report on EV sales in South Africa over the next five years; Chery’s reported plans to build a car plant in South Africa; The challenges at Mercedes-Benz South Africa’s East London production plant, especially in the light of US President Donald Trump’s tariff wars; Tesla’s challenge to the like of Waymo – a look at Elon Musk’s determination to win in autonomous ride-hailing services; Xiaomi’s beautiful YU7 and how it’s going toe-to-toe with Tesla in China; What’s happening at Porsche; and Christian Horner’s exit at Red Bull Racing.

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