Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

  • EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca
    49·
    5 days ago

    Ethiopia generates more than 96% of its electricity from renewable hydropower…

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    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!

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      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)

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      11·
      5 days ago

      in a nation where around half of the population of more than 110 million still lives without electricity.