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25% of new cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs – here's who bought them
- toomuchtodo 10mo agohttps://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how-emerging-markets-are-driving-a-global-ev-boom/ https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how...
- xenospn 10mo agoI’m currently traveling through Ethiopia, and it feels like 80% of the cars on the roads here are either BYD or some other Chinese maker I’ve never heard of. All EVs - and this is in a country with very unreliable power. Same thing in South Africa - the Chinese brands are absolutely massive and sell for about $25k for a fully modern car.
- toomuchtodo 10mo agoIn the case of Ethiopia, they banned combustion vehicles to stoke EV uptake to avoid oil imports. It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243196 - February 2024 (69 comments)