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.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    5·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • Anivia@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      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

      • quick_snail@feddit.nl
        2·
        4 days ago

        Modern ICE engines are still terrible.

        They’re like, what, 20% efficient? It’s just trash technology

        • Anivia@feddit.org
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          4 days ago

          Yes, I agree, EVs are much better. I’m just pointing out that domestic ICE production is difficult. Building electric motors is easy