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Electric VehiclesElectric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
Thanks for spearheading this. I'm looking forward to see what an ICE-free downtown sounds and smells like.
Go to Shanghai
Wow that is a major step. Hope they're ready for it .... seems amazing though.
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!
and yet, North American companies cannot do this math.
That’s pretty cool actually.
Whaat?
Incredible if true!
Wow, this is amazing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
