Dear MEL Topic Readers,
EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in a surprising place
Ethiopia is a landlocked country located in East Africa. With a
population of a little over 100 million, it is the 13th-most
populous country in the world and the 2nd in Africa after Nigeria.
The capital and largest city is Addis Ababa, a highly developed modern city. The
abundant water resources, primarily from the Blue Nile River, have made Ethiopia
the 2nd most hydropowered country in Africa, supplying 96% of the country’s
electricity. This year, the government took a radical step to promote electric
vehicles by banning the import of all gas-powered passenger vehicles, the world’s
first country to do so. Though there are only 1.2 million cars on the road in
Ethiopia, such a strong government initiative to promote clean vehicles is admirable.
At the moment, there is only one car per 1,000 people in Ethiopia, which is
much fewer than 54 cars per thousand in Nigeria. So, when more people start
driving automobiles in Ethiopia, they are most likely EVs that use domestically
produced clean hydropower.
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