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EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in Ethiopia
- speedbird 2y ago1.2M vehicles at 1 per 1,000 people = 1.2B people?
- klyrs 2y agoTheir census workers run really fast?
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- jwilk 2y agoApparently counting cars in Ethiopia is hard. In 2009 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-50426159 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-50426159 said it was 600K cars at 2 cars per 1000 people, so 300 million people. In reality, the Ethiopia population is ~110 million (and it was much less back in 2009).
- triyambakam 2y ago"overtake" in the title seems very exaggerated > There are around 100,000 EVs in Ethiopia so far. [1] > The Ministry of Transport data indicates approximately two million vehicles in Ethiopia [2] [1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/17/climate/ethiopia-evs-gas-car-ban-climate/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/17/climate/ethiopia-evs-gas-car-... [2] https://ethionegari.com/2024/01/29/ethiopia-to-ban-entry-of-fuel-powered-vehicles/ https://ethionegari.com/2024/01/29/ethiopia-to-ban-entry-of-...
- netsharc 2y agoWell to be pedantic, if I'm in a car and I'm "starting to overtake", I'd still be behind the overtake "target", but I just started speeding up...
- cosmicradiance 2y agoNot really, you first have to catch up the vehicle ahead, before you start overtaking. At present, they are miles behind.
- Two4 2y agoI think this is referring to new car sales - vehicles in the third world tend to stay on the road a very long time, 30 to 40 years by my reckoning. It would take a long time for EVs to displace ICEVs by sheer numbers.
- frank_bb 2y ago[dead]
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoOne would think that the e-bike is what would really revolutionize transportation in the third world, especially a place like Ethiopia that doesn't really see snow.
- barber_the_dope 2y ago[dead]