Ethiopia is ready to ban ICE vehicles immediately

03 February 2024
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's move to ban gasoline and diesel vehicles is crazy! It's bold and risky, but if they can pull it off, it could be a game-changer for electric vehicles and clean air. I'll be watching closely to see how it all unfolds.

  • Anonymous

Anonymous, 04 Feb 2024I didn't say that Etiopia is not planning to ban ICE. But the supposed reasons for the ... moreWOW i guess Kamacho is their president?

  • Anonymous

Most of the population relies on getting cheap cars from the used market, so unless the used car market suddenly gets filled with electric cars, these people will be left without transport.

  • Anonymous

Anonymous, 04 Feb 2024sooner or later this decision will be revoked or changed at least. obviously they never gave a... moreExactly. They can't first ban ICEs and only after that start to built the infrastructure for electric cars.
And they also didn't think about how to make the electric cars more affordable to the general population.

  • Anonymous

sooner or later this decision will be revoked or changed at least. obviously they never gave alot of time and thoughts when they come up with this .

  • Anonymous

Pino, 04 Feb 2024The article has been fact-checked and no, it's not "total bs". https://chat.op... moreI didn't say that Etiopia is not planning to ban ICE.
But the supposed reasons for the ban are not really true. Also that there will be some gold rush movement of ICE is nonsense.
Etiopia has a very low amount of cars per capita, because they are expensive for them. Electric cars are even more expensive and hardly affordable for the population.
If someone thinks some manufacturer will open a factory there then I beg to differ, they will be imported, that's all.

Anonymous, 04 Feb 2024This article is total nonsense. The supposed reason for "banning ICE" is high fuel ... moreThe article has been fact-checked and no, it's not "total bs".
https://chat.openai.com/share/102d0909-ebb8-4b6a-b612-d07018b6e949

  • Anonymous

Instead of banning ICE from the get go, they should heavily invest in public transportation.
Buy many electric buses so people will use that instead of their old cars. It will reduce diesel consumption and It can be more easily implemented and be cheaper for the country.

  • Anonymous

Lsi, 03 Feb 2024I wonder who will have money in Ethopia to buy these new electric cars !? Of course the citizens won't have the money. The average salary in the country is only $220 per month.
The government can ban import of ICE cars but the population is too poor to afford new electric cars. They would need to save money for many many years to buy one.

Then let's not forget about all the investment needed for the infrastructure, power grids and so on.

  • Anonymous

This article is total nonsense.
The supposed reason for "banning ICE" is high fuel import cost and air pollution.

Let's see some facts.
Ethiopia has a population of 127,955,823
It has only 1,200,000 registered motor vehicles and this includes cars, vans, buses, freight, and other trucks, but exclude two-wheelers. Seriously don't know where the author got 2 million vehicles? Even If we included motorbikes I don't think It would be that high.
So only ~10 vehicles per 1000 people, but they supposedly fear air pollution? Really?

The other one is fuels cost. Gasoline and diesel was imported for €6 billion -> $6.5 billion.
In Ethiopia 1liter of diesel is $1.413.
Meaning every vehicle owner would have spent $5,400 on fuel annually, which is clearly impossible based on the average salary, which is only $220 per month or $2,600 per year!
That's clearly not used only as a fuel for vehicles.
So in reality the gas imported, which is used as a fuel for vehicles is likely only 20-25%($1.3-1.6 billion) of the whole If not less.

So one of the reasons looks like a lie and the other only partially true.

Then the author is talking about some gold rush movement nonsense of EV manufacturers, importers, and infrastructure providers to the country. LMAO.
Electric cars are far too expensive for a country where the average salary is only $2600 annually.
And even the infrastructure would cost them hundreds of millions If not billions.

  • Lsi

I wonder who will have money in Ethopia to buy these new electric cars !?

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