About & sources

RandVolt (working name) helps South Africans who are curious about swapping a petrol car for a plug-in hybrid, hybrid or EV. Rand first, plain language, sources linked.

Where the numbers come from

• Prices and specs: recommended retail prices from cars.co.za, gwm.co.za, timeslive.co.za, checked on 17 Oct 2026. Each price links to its page.
• Petrol: 95 unleaded inland R30.25/L from 07 Oct 2026 (gov.za).
• Dealers: each brand's official South African dealer locator or dealer page (BAIC, BYD, Changan, Chery, Dongfeng, Geely, GWM/Haval, Honda, Hyundai, iCAUR, Jaecoo, Jetour, Leapmotor, MG, Omoda, Toyota), fetched 17 October 2026. Dealers outside South Africa and ones marked as not yet open are left out. Provinces are checked against each dealer's map pin, postcode and town.
• Dealer locations: map pins from the locators where given; otherwise the town centre (marked approximate), from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
• Dealer counts: cited per brand (mostly MyBroadband, June 2026).

Running costs

Monthly cost = electricity (kWh/100km × km × share on electricity × 1.1 for charging losses × R/kWh) + petrol (L/100km × km × share on petrol × R/L). Where a brand doesn't publish kWh/100km we divide the claimed battery size by the claimed electric range. For plug-in hybrids with an empty battery we use the published figure, or 6 L/100km as our estimate when none is published. Claimed figures are usually better than real life.

Privacy and your location (POPIA)

To show nearby dealers and cars, we use the approximate area of your internet connection (town and province, provided by Cloudflare with each request). If you tap Use my exact location or type a town or postcode, your choice is saved only in a cookie on your device, rounded to about 1 km, and used to sort results. We don't store your location on our servers or link it to you, and you can reset it under "change". Typed places are looked up in our own copy of the GeoNames towns and postcodes list (CC BY 4.0), so nothing goes to a third-party map service.

If you sell a car, we keep your name, email and optional WhatsApp number only to run your listing. Your email is never shown; buyers' messages are kept only to pass them to you, and your WhatsApp number is shown only if you tick the box. Listings end after 60 days. To have your data corrected or deleted, contact us (contact details coming soon).

What we don't do

We don't copy listings from AutoTrader or Cars.co.za; we link to their searches. We never guess a spec: blank means not found. Contact: coming soon.