Post #2035999
2026-05-04 13:09 UTC
1/ “How Ethiopia Is Embracing the EV Revolution and Ditching Fossil Fuel Cars”
https://www.energyconnects.com/news/renewables/2026/february/electric-vehicle-sales-boom-as-ethiopia-bans-fossil-fuel-car-imports/
“In 2024, the Ethiopian government banned the import of fossil fuel-powered vehicles and slashed tariffs on their electric equivalents. It was a policy driven less by the country’s climate ambitions and more by fiscal pressures. For years, subsidizing gasoline for consumers has been a major drag on Ethiopia’s budget, costing the state billions of dollars over the past decade.”
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@light_bulbs@mastodon.green 2026-05-04 13:09
2/ “For the government, the growth in EV sales is a vindication of its import policy, which in turn has been made possible by its investments in electricity infrastructure. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam, completed in 2025 at a cost of $5 billion, produces 5,150 megawatts of power. Combined with other generating assets, including wind farms and solar, the country has excess generation capacity, which it sells to neighboring Kenya, Tanzania and Djibouti.”