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Saturday, 19 September 2026
Car Talk balanced practical motoring advice with major developments in EV charging, mobile servicing, motorsport events and a fatal accident at Killarney Raceway.
- 18:00
A 62-year-old driver, Marcel Angel, died after his Ferrari 488 GT3 collided with a wall and caught fire during Killarney Raceway’s Extreme Festival; the event was cancelled.
- 10:24
SAEV Charge announced a nationwide rollout of 120-kilowatt DC fast chargers, with sessions taking 25–40 minutes and phase one targeting 100 stations.
- 10:28
The company’s Richmond Park pilot has four 120-kilowatt chargers at R3.49 per kilowatt-hour, dropping to R2.49 when its battery reaches 90% capacity.
- 10:38
The AA’s mobile servicing operation sends qualified technicians to homes or workplaces, typically within 48 hours; it launched in Gauteng and may expand to Cape Town and Durban.
- 10:16
Killarney’s Time Attack returns on 25–26 September with more than 100 entries, Africa’s first Global Time Attack affiliation and a planned 2027 influx of cars from the United States.