Ethiopia becomes first country to ban internal combustion engines: Only EVs allowed

[Redaktion]

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.  


https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ethiopia-becomes-first-country-to-ban-internal-combustion-engines-Only-EVs-allowed.802396.0.html

[Neenyah]

GDP (PPP) Per capita $3,719

Good luck with that, I guess.

[btetrb]

GDP (PPP) Per capita $3,719

1400

[Neenyah]

1400

Yeah I know, I went with PPP instead of nominal, but 1400 makes it even more tragic. On average they will need 2-3 working generations to finally buy one car. Or just walk/drive bicycles (perhaps that was the whole intention behind this decision after all).

[LL]

This is what a Tyranny looks like.

[Swizzy]

So old vehicles will be repaired until they are 100% gone and then what? Buy a 25k EV? Some money probably changed hands, this isn't a sane decision.

[Neenyah]

Buy a 25k EV?

Yes. Save 60-210 years to get a cheapest EV car on the market (and to catch up with all inflation and stuff).

[PragmaticApe]

RIP their economy.

[Zack]

With regard to the tyranny comment.  Yeah no build it, they will come and have more and cheaper options than with gas guzzlers.  The real tyrants are in the oil industry which destroyed cheap affordable public transit, and forced American to push around 2 tonne metal buckets for the last 100 years...then adding insult to injury using their ill begotten fortunes to corrupt our public representatives into a forever war state draining even more wealth and productivity from American workers. The oil industry is a national security threat. Oil is a useless drug. Time for rehab.

[Sky]

So old vehicles will be repaired until they are 100% gone and then what? Buy a 25k EV? Some money probably changed hands, this isn't a sane decision.

You can buy a $1000 ev car from China

Don't know what you're talking about, do you?

[Sky]

A lot of people don't know ow what they are talking about in the comments.

You can buy a $1000 ev car from China. So people who are saying $25k ev's are simply ignorant on what's out there.

As for it ruining their economy, how? They spend $6B a year importing fuel. That $6B a year can be better spent on infrastructure projects that will increase the economy.

And tyranny? How is it tyrannical to bot allow products that harm people to be sold?

Lots of dumb Americans in the comments

[Bob H]

lol Ethiopia
can't wait to see how things work out.
I mean, Ethiopia is known for hi tech, right?
They will be burning goat dung to generate electricity.

[John2473]

Bankrupt country tries to regulate itself out of a mess caused by regulation. Look how the anti-colonialists have massacred our boy!

[Markiz]

With regard to the tyranny comment.  Yeah no build it, they will come and have more and cheaper options than with gas guzzlers.  The real tyrants are in the oil industry which destroyed cheap affordable public transit, and forced American to push around 2 tonne metal buckets for the last 100 years...then adding insult to injury using their ill begotten fortunes to corrupt our public representatives into a forever war state draining even more wealth and productivity from American workers. The oil industry is a national security threat. Oil is a useless drug. Time for rehab.

I mean, sure. But it's a poor country. Should they be the ones to try this experiment? So soon?
Why not just tax oil a bit more, use that to subsidize cars and basic charging network and electricity grid, and then people will make calculations themselves?
If gas is expensive, the rich will be the ones using it mostly.

Not to mention any industrial effort they might have had. We in the developed west have not even tried to electrify vast majority if our industrial activity, so how can that be expected of Ethiopia?

This just seems wrong.

[Volt]

I lived in ethiopia and they don't have the infrastructure to fully transition to an ev only country.