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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.
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