Unverified News has emerged that the Zimbabwean man who invented the electric car has gone missing . Many US press is also still disputing the claims that he actually made the electric cars in the first place.
Maxwell Chikumbutso is a Zimbabwean citizen who has been stretching his mind all his life, trying all kinds of ideas unsuccessfully until he was able, through a dream-like inspiration, to begin working with airwaves. Then, he was able to discover there was boundless energy in the sky in the form of radio waves. This energy is in the form of a microwave that can be transformed into electrical power.
An news outlet USA today CV claimed :
Facebook users claim an Zimbabwean inventor who dropped out of school at age 14 created an electric car that does not need to be charged.
He has become the first Zimbabwean to design and make an electric powered vehicle and a hybrid helicopter, among other gadgets through his company SAITH Technologies,” reads an Oct. 28 Facebook post that has been shared over 1,000 times. “The car uses radio frequencies to create energy and uses no moving parts.”
The rumor first started in 2015, when Zimbabwean tech news site Techzim was invited to an “Open Day” event to report on a company called Saith Technologies, which the outlet said it had never heard of.
“Has anyone ever heard of Saith Technologies? To be honest, I hadn’t until today,” wrote Victor Mukandatsama of Techzim. “The company will hold an open day to showcase technologies that they have been working on at the Bluffhill Industrial Park in Harare.”
Mukandatsama said the electric car project by Sangulani Maxwell Chikumbutso was “another interesting development considering the scarcity of energy and power in Africa.”
The only images available on Saith Technologies’ Facebook and Twitter page are from that event, and the account has been inactive since 2015.
Leonard Sengere, editor of Techzim, told Snopes that one of its reporters attended the event and was given a tour of the “inventions.”
“The electric car and the generator were shown running and that was the extent of it,” Sengere said. “There was no chance for anyone to verify exactly what they were running on,” adding that the scientific community “largely just ignored him.”
