Ethiopia has decided that only electric cars may be imported into the country. The move is a major step towards sustainable mobility and is ahead of the European Union's plans to ban internal combustion engines from 2035.
Money. It says so in the article. They can’t afford to import fossils anymore but they have enough (or will have enough) domestically produced electricity.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is keeping the prices on fossil fuels low through inefficient subsidies worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Money. It says so in the article. They can’t afford to import fossils anymore but they have enough (or will have enough) domestically produced electricity.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is keeping the prices on fossil fuels low through inefficient subsidies worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Specifically, they are just finishing a rather impressive 5GW hydropower project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam