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Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
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When will Madagascar get mad at gas car?
I don’t know if there’s a dad jokes section, but you deserve to be there, dad
Ethiopia generates more than 96% of its electricity from renewable hydropower…
TIL
For many in Ethiopia, where salaries are often less than €1000 a year, the starting price of a new electric car — €17,000 ($19,700/3.2 million Ethiopian birr) — is steep. But taxi driver Abdurahman Ali is happy he made the switch. […] “Before switching […] every month I would spend 40,000-50,000 birr on fuel. Since switching to electric and charging at home, my monthly costs have dropped to about 5,000 birr, at most. That’s a huge difference.”
That’s massive! Roughly, from €250 to €25 a month? Fuck, that’s some fabulous news right there. Go on, Mr. Ali!
Hell, even here in Australia I charge my ecar and ebike from solar panels on my roof >80% of the time, the rest of the time I use the cheap over night tarrif
this in a country with the highest penetrations of roof top solar and still something like 85% of new cars are oil burners and we import nearly all our fuel, fucking stupid people beyond words. (I’m talking about new car buyers here)
in a nation where around half of the population of more than 110 million still lives without electricity.
and yet, North American companies cannot do this math.
That’s pretty cool actually.
So this doesn’t ban them wholesale. The article says it bans importing cars with gasoline and diesel engines.
Anyone know if this applies to 2 wheeled vehicles like 2 cycle mopeds or motorcycles?
The ban includes all fossil fueled vehicles.
In addition, motorcycles were completely banned in the capital in 2019 to curb crime.
As you write, they are building domestic production of electric mopeds and cars.
It’s a plan they’ve been doing for a few years by now. They want energy independence and to be the main supplier for the African car market.
Update: there is at least some domestic car manufacturing in Ethiopia. They said there’s 17 plants for EVs in the article.
I wonder how many plants in the country make ICE cars.
Good ICE engines are extremely hard to build. Modern ICE engines are pretty much an engineering miracle, which is one of the reasons China never managed to get into the market of ICE cars, and why Korean cars took decades to catch up to western manufacturers
Modern ICE engines are still terrible.
They’re like, what, 20% efficient? It’s just trash technology
Yes, I agree, EVs are much better. I’m just pointing out that domestic ICE production is difficult. Building electric motors is easy
Thanks for spearheading this. I’m looking forward to see what an ICE-free downtown sounds and smells like.
Ethiopian food, coffee, and space ships
Me, I’d be there mostly for the EVs. The US is where you’d probably find more space ships.
I mean the EVs sound like space ships. Because laws make them make noise so pedestrians and cyclists can hear them.
Sounds in space? I’ll take your word for it.
Go to Shanghai
I mean I still believe you could DIY build an electric car for like 5000€ pretty much out of bicycle parts. Even if it only goes 50kmh that would be enough for city travel.
May I introduce you to the Citroën AMI / Fiat Topolino?
Race cars aren’t great daily drivers.
What the fuck lmao
100 lap race with 9 Citroen Amis, with the engine unlocked to reach 70km/h.
Full race here (commentary in French)
Wow that is a major step. Hope they’re ready for it … seems amazing though.
Wow, this is amazing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Whaat?
Incredible if true!
dw.com ? Maybe a good source of information, maybe not 🤷🏼♀️ gotta stay vigilant.
It appears that it’s not a ban on ICE cars, but a step in the right direction.
Then check the sources and learn, my friend. It’s not hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle
Deutsche Welle (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə] ⓘ; lit. ‘German Wave’[3][4]), commonly shortened to DW, is a German state-funded television network and public service[1] international broadcaster funded by the Federal Government of Germany.[5]
To be specific, the ban is only on new imports of cars. Doesn’t effect any domestic production of petrol cars, (or all existing vehicles). Still a big step of course.
