‘Sometimes there’s no power’: Ethiopia’s tricky switch to electric cars • FRANCE 24

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1. Scam

2. Why did you buy electric when you know there is no charging station 🤦‍♂️

3. Makes no sense to buy an EV in a country when ICE is cheaper buy a huge margin and electricity with charging stations is very hard to find

4. I bought airplane but I don’t have airport 😂😂😂😂

5. The report is typical western bias, we have thousands of charger stations accross country and many will be built……..

6. The grand Ethiopian renaissance dam is 99% completed which will provide abundant electricity to 85% of the 120 million population which makes the ban on gas fuelled vehicles & switching to electric vehicles sensible & inline with the government’s green agenda while cutting on import of petroleum saving the country billions of dollars in hard currency.

7. Actually Ethiopia is experiencing a rise in electric vehicle usage, with Teslas y&3, BYD, Vinfast, VW ID.4 and 6, and even some Rivians becoming more common. Charging these vehicles at home is both affordable and eco-friendly, costing around 10 euros per month. The country’s power grid operates on 220V, allowing EVs to charge using AC at 16 kW or 32 kW without needing special modifications. A full charge takes around 4-6 hours. Moreover, with over 95% of Ethiopia’s electricity coming from hydroelectric power, this shift to electric vehicles is powered by renewable energy, making it a sustainable solution.

8. Ethiopia is on the right path🇪🇹

9. Full support China ❤
   China is best ❤

10. The great incentive of buying EV is that oil is not an unlimited resources while electricity can be generated using diverse sources, e.g. solar, wind, nuclear, or even coal.

11. Electric car, what ridiculous propaganda 😂😂
    A country that, even in the capital city of Addis Ababa, fails to provide the basic things of water and electricity to its inhabitants,
    Most of the areas in Addis have water once or two Days a week, and electricity is worse sometimes several times a week disappears for a day or days even more, and here you are talking about an electric vehicle 😂😂😂😂😂

12. … strangely on this globalization age how on earth those Chinese EV companies engaged with price war miss this great opportunity opened here in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economy in Africa and historically the first country in the world banned the importation of internal combustion engine vehicles but left widely open for EV assembly, importation or dealership with 0% or very favorable TAX exemption?
    
    Sadly despite of unavailability and scarcity we forced to buy EVs with more than doubled prices from unfair importers right now.

13. Plug in hybrid may be the best

14. There's no electricity in Ethiopia, you can barely get electricity two days in a row in Ethiopia.

15. This is a negative journalism on Africa (by western media). I have an electric car and typically charge it once a week over night. Yes there are power cuts but usually for about 2 hours 2 – 3 times a week. without providing data and information, you keep pushing the poverty narrative on africa. shame!

16. what a joke and wishful thinking this is for this country. the governent even suppy its people with consistent electricy but wants everyone to switch to EV. electiric is not the future hyrbrids are.

17. A series journalist would have inquired about the real reason for the decision to ban fuel cars in a country with zero EV infrastructure and where more than half of the population doesn’t have access to electricity. The truth is that the decision has nothing to do with reducing carbon emissions or environmental concerns and is purely economical. The government is unable to import fuel due to severe shortages of foreign currency. IMF just recently bailed it out to avoid default. Western journalists love to jump on the environmental hype bandwagon without really trying to understand the true story behind it. This is a broken economy that is struggling to import fuel and selling the devastating economic state as “a great move for the environment” and western media are falling for it one after another 😂

18. China is winning not Ethiopian, 95% of Ethiopian can only buy a Chinese EV car.
    and not forget that Ethiopia is the most African country with a huge debt to China.

19. Correct. Very intermittent electric lower supply

20. Nati is a good driver

21. Funny evs without electricity

22. Galla logic

23. I'd first worry about safe and drinkable tap water in every home and a 21st century sanitation system across the board before worrying about creating a "green utopia". Oh and did i forget an effective "FDA" or equivalent to tackle the serious and rampant issue of food safety and inspection.

24. guys he said some times its 3rd world country chill

25. every body crying like a baby infant about ethiopian EV funny thing is they are not even ethiopian. They want to tell us what is best for us😂 i recently buy chinise EV and i'm good until now.

26. This is aBiys’s delusional and short sighted attempt to make the country even worse.

27. I like it thats why i buy it 😂

28. Half of our population doesn’t have access to electricity… ironic

29. Bro i know he will refuse to take me to home 1 hours far from addis abeba during rain 🌧

30. Actually half of the country outside the capital is starving, no school, no healthcare, no services and almost in a civil war. But yes, it'll be sustainable 😉