Nigerian Man designs, builds and unveils Nigerian First Carbon Fibre Car in Jos
25-year-old Nigerian engineer, Jerry Mallo, has successfully designed and assembled Nigerian first carbon fibre car which he named ‘Bennie Purrie.’
The car was unveiled on Thursday at Transcorp Hilton Hotel where the occasion was chaired by the Governor of plateau state, Simon Lalung.
When interviewed on on channels television on Friday after the unveiling of the car, the plateau born engineer said the car is not available yet adding that the first batch was only for testing and to notify the general public that such cars can be produced in Nigeria adding that in 2 years time the car would be available a cheaper rates.
“In Europe, we learnt that making the car is just half of the challenge, and selling it is the other half; Africa is usually is the target place to sell these vehicles, so I feel there’s a big market for it here” he said
