It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars

Mannydefreitas said:
Brave?
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I wonder...

Most people will probably just keep their current cars for a while and maintain them.
Trucks and other comercial vehicles are probably excluded.

It wont be like other countries where they don't allow old cars.
There is also probably a deal with China to import some of these cheap electric cars.

I know they have that big dam they are building to electricity is less of a problem.

Might be a good way to see how something like this could be done.
 
It is rather disappointing to see so few EVs from the low end of the market, available in South Africa. Appropriate policy is sorely needed.
 
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koffiejunkie said:
It is rather disappointing to see so few EVs from the low end of the market, available in South Africa. Appropriate policy id sorely needed.
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The issue is import duties are ridiculous for EVs into SA. So low end EVs struggle.
 
FiestaST said:
electrek.co

It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars

Ethiopia's Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter the country unless they are electric. (!)
electrek.co electrek.co



www.arenaev.com

Ethiopia is ready to ban ICE vehicles immediately

An unlikely leader in global EV transition is emerging from Africa with Ethiopia taking steps to ban ICE vehicles from the country with immediate effect.
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Ethiopia is NOT ready to ban ICE cars lol. Who wrote or said that? LMAO. I think it'll be awesome for Addis to have clean air, but what makes them think they're going to get that right when there's bumper to bumper skedonks in the capital right now?
 
wingnut771 said:
They banned new ICE car sales.
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Yep, a subtle but significant difference in the clickbait title.
That said, it will be interesting to see what their plan is. I mean, they have a metro train in Addis that people actually use. It would be great if they could start with better roads though.
 
JerryMungo said:
Yep, a subtle but significant difference in the clickbait title.
That said, it will be interesting to see what their plan is. I mean, they have a metro train in Addis that people actually use. It would be great if they could start with better roads though.
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Its the chicken and egg thing regarding EV's and public chargers. Nobody wants to install chargers if there are no cars and nobody wants to buy cars if there are no chargers. By banning ICE sales, they going with the chicken approach, and now public chargers are starting to appear (the egg).
 
wingnut771 said:
It’s the chicken and egg thing regarding EV's and public chargers. Nobody wants to install chargers if there are no cars and nobody wants to buy cars if there are no chargers. By banning ICE sales, they going with the chicken approach, and now public chargers are starting to appear (the egg).
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The trouble is anyone who owns a new car will now own two. Ethiopia is so far from solving the road trip equation.
 
JerryMungo said:
The trouble is anyone who owns a new car will now own two. Ethiopia is so far from solving the road trip equation.
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BYD is installing 300 x 1MW flash chargers in SA next year. That should solve the road trip equation so can now keep only one car. Maybe BYD will do something similar there.
 
wingnut771 said:
BYD is installing 300 x 1MW flash chargers in SA next year. That should solve the road trip equation so can now keep only one car. Maybe BYD will do something similar there.
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170 000 km of road with 25 000 of that tar. Frequent outages up to 46hr blackouts in parts of Addis and widespread generator use. Half the population are off grid. Alot of the grid infra is over 40 years old now. Over 90% of electricity relies on hydro power in a country with huge drought issues. Installing chargers isn't going to solve that.
 
JerryMungo said:
170 000 km of road with 25 000 of that tar. Frequent outages up to 46hr blackouts in parts of Addis and widespread generator use. Half the population are off grid. Alot of the grid infra is over 40 years old now. Over 90% of electricity relies on hydro power in a country with huge drought issues. Installing chargers isn't going to solve that.
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