By Kaiyo FunakiApril 6, 2024
Ethiopia announced earlier this year its plan to ban the import of all non-electric automobiles, becoming the first country to outlaw the entry of internal combustion engine vehicles.
Electrek noted that specifics were scant but that the resolution served as a win for the nation’s environmental impact and economy. “A decision has been made, that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia unless they are electric ones,” Minister for Transport and Logistics Alemu Sime said.As stated in its Ten Years Development Plan, officials want to reduce Ethiopia’s output of planet-warming pollution from the transportation sector from 41 million metric tons (about 45 million tons) to 27.8 million metric tons (about 30.6 million tons) of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030.
Additionally, the country’s Long-Term Low Emission And Climate Resilient Development Strategy report allocated $13.44 billion through 2050 toward charging stations, electric vehicles, and electric buses.However, the most recent data from the World Bank shows that just over 54% of people in Ethiopia have access to electricity. Furthermore, there are potential financial barriers to purchasing EVs and the lack of charging infrastructure. As such, Sime noted that addressing the latter point remained a high priority.
Though it’s unclear what the exact details of Ethiopia’s ban on dirty-energy-based automobiles will be, it will mark a huge step for the country to meet its pollution-reduction goals.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/ethiopia-ban-on-gas-vehicles/
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Did someone reboot The National Lampoon?
In addition, diesel generator sales are about to explode.
My thought exactly.
It goes to show you that politicians are insane. Race, Creed, or Color has nothing to do with it. Political insanity is a worldwide disease.
I guess that out-virtue-signals us here in the UK!
And most on display at the UN.
The UN is now indisputably the place where reality and rationality go to die.
My guess would be they weren’t insane. They were offered a pot of money to do it by the US/EU/UN, so they did it. The money is already in their offshore bank accounts, and the law is meaningless, because the people are too poor to care.
Yes. The simplest explanation is that money has changed hands somewhere such that some politician or bureaucrat does something to encourage sales of EVs in the country.
Perhaps one particular EV manufacturer will suddenly receive a significant purchase of their vehicles for delivery to Ethiopia. The most obvious suspects are probably in China.
MAD magazine’s latest issue.
The National Lampoon was very much nastier and mean spirited than Mad. Quite funny, but not something to share with Granny.
G’Day Tom,
Note the source: “The Cool Down.” It was about four months ago that the name started showing up on the Yahoo home page. So I read two articles. Haven’t bothered since then – pure bilge.
Who knew: Climate Alarmists are running Ethiopia!
I just wonder what the angle is. Are they True Believers, or are they getting paid to take this position?
Either way, this position is going to harm Ethiopia.
This is fascinating. It will be interesting to see how and when the policy walkback occurs. My guess is that it will be complete and soon.
With no charging infrastructure are 46% without electricity, walkback sounds right.
In Ethiopia, while electricity reaches less than half of the population, great progress has been made over the past two decades. The National Electrification Program, launched in 2017, outlines a plan to reach universal access by 2025, aiming to supply 35% of the population with off-grid solutions.
https://www.iea.org/countries/ethiopia
Even those with electricity probably do not have even 60 amp services unless they are members of the government.
Pretend you are in charge Scissor…
There are only 2 cars per thousand people in Ethiopia, so never gonna be a better time to NOT allow ICE engined vehicles into the country.
Duohh. Put your eco- brain on think-ahead mode please….without considering CO2, just think of the infrastructure savings.
/s
No doubt the enviros in that nation were
educatedbrainwashed in elite western schools.I put my money on their being bought off by wealthy WEF socialists. Follow the money.
To the elites. Heck, they probably don’t even know anybody who does not have electricity.
Yeah, the leader of Ethiopia probably has a brother-in-law who installs charging stations.
This gormless exercise will have absolutely zero effect on anything to do with climate.
What it will do is lock 99% of Ethiopia’s population in to continued abject poverty.
Just what the marxist totalitarians want.
I’m sure it the general population is breathing a sigh of relief now that their government has taken such a bold step to improve their lot………..
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/09/tigray-ethiopia-war-drought-aid-suspended-hunger-crisis-death-desperation
Just received an email from an Ethiopian prince who will pay me handsomely to assist him in moving his Rolls Royce out of the country.
I’m gonna be rich!!!!
But it’s only the importation that’s banned- this could be a clever way to use EVs as an excuse around trade treaties to force car manufacturers to set up a plant in the country to make cars, even gas ones.
They can buy Chinese exploding battery scooters instead.
Like Europe, electric busses seem to be on the rise in africa.
Duhname has batteries-on-the-brain:
How do you propose they be charged in East Africa?
That would involve the matter being properly thought through.
This is something that never happens with “green” propositions.
Just little details for someone else to figure out.
The elites view themselves as being the big picture guys.
Figuring out the details is for hoi polloi to deal with.
Yep, they probably doubled the number of E busses, they now have 2.
And neither one runs when needed.
Elites don’t use busses.. So… NO !!
A lot of transport outside the main city is done by minibus and small van.
Nobody will be replacing them, especially not with EV bases.
Nobody could for them anyway.
No electricity infrastructure for charging, large distances, horrible roads.
And EV bus would not last a week !
typo correction, line 3
Nobody could afford them anyway.
And this after many nations are finally realising that the idea of net zero is not only unworkable but also that it is nonsense.
Really? Nations outside of wuwt? 😛
Yet here you are…
Sanity starts here…
… but you will never catch it !!
The People know that but Big Brother/Sister and his/her puppets are too power hungry. There are no good cancers. They only want to grow bigger.
A sad pathetic gesture beyond words.
this from an impoverished country that needs all the reliable energy transport options it can get, yet it decides shooting itself in the foot is the best policy, truly shameful.
Are they really Communists?
Nope, capitalists. The communists are building hundreds of coal-fired plants in China.
They are already in charge of the World Health Organization.
It makes a terrif Green headline that Ethiopia is leading the world by example with a battery car mandate-
Increasing car ownership in Ethiopia (bbc.com)
and a freebie for the Pres-
Ethiopia Showcases First Locally Assembled Electric Car (techweez.com)
It’s a tough gig going Green but somebody has to do it.
As Kermit would say: It ain’t easy being green
“leading the world by example”
Right, soon we’ll all be living like Ethiopians.
💯
Do all of the “important” high-ranking government officials already own ICE vehicles? Yes.
When those vehicles eventually die, do all of the “important” high-ranking government officials already have access to electricity? Yes.
Therefore, the new legislation is only a problem for the peasants, not the elites. If you can’t separate yourself from the peasants, what is the point of being elite?
P.S. John Kerry knows the answer to my rhetorical question.
An extract from a link provided by James Snook above:
“The drought is one of the worst in recent memory, but it is just the latest crisis to hit Tigray. The rains failed in the middle of a suspension of aid, introduced by the US and the United Nations in mid-March over a huge scheme to steal humanitarian grain by Ethiopian officials. The pause was extended to the rest of Ethiopia in June when the theft was discovered to be nationwide.”
So it seems there are no depths to which Ethiopian officials won’t sink to cream off some cash for themselves.
Article says”… it will mark a huge step for the country to…”.
I guess “to continue its willingness to keep its people mired in poverty.”
If most Irish workers in the private sector cannot afford an EV how can impoverished Ethiopians afford an EV?
but.. but.. mules have a much lower carbon footprint 🙂
Even mules exhale around 10 pounds(4.5 kg) of CO2 per day.
Countries will now industrialize using renewables. And probably directily jump to EVs. Whether you like it or not.
And a sufficiently well funded genetic engineering program will produce flying pigs. How well funded? When they produce flying pigs, of course!
Tell me how the vast majority of people in Ethiopia that do not own any type of vehicle (pop almost 130m, registered cars less than 1m) “jump to EVs”
Where will the electrons come from, Duhname?
He’s like most leftists. Since the leadership says it’s possible, it’s possible. Doubt of the leadership is not permitted.
The big world leftist countries, China and Russia are building coal and gas-fired power plants.
It’s the capitalists hoping to make trillions in profits that are pushing the climate change agenda on the West.
The capitalists are the ones who own the media, control the politicians, and control the universities that are pushing the “green” agenda.
In what passes for your mind, anyone with money is a capitalist?
The main thing Ethiopia are building is hydro.
There, I fixed it for you! You are using ALMOST the right phrase.
Those who believe in FREE ENTERPRISE would never support the climate change agenda or anything else that requires government subsidies to function.
Those who use capitalist as a descriptor believes in the tenants of Marx, thus is Marxist. So you are scvblwxq, as shown by MANY of your posts here. Including:
Neither China OR Russia are leftist and only a Marxist could even think of writing such an ignorant sentence. China and Russia are both Fascist. AND totalitarian. Election in Russia, yes, but like Brazil, Russia just made sure no one else could run against Putin through their courts. I am sure YOU approve.
Crony capitalism is just another cover for socialist.
If you want to use government to pick the winners and losers, you are a socialist.
Crony capitalism is just another cover for socialist.
If you want to use government to pick the winners and losers, you are a socialist.
You’re funny.
Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar?
yes
“will now industrialize using renewables.”
No they will not. It is not possible to industrialise using wind and solar.
UK and Germany have had to deindustrialised because they stupidly decided to use wind and solar.
Exactly.
It’s like this-
Trillions in taxpayer subsidies haven’t made wind and solar power cheaper or better for the world, massive spending figures show | Sky News Australia
Not that reason will ever make any impact on you emotional types who feel you’re doomed and have the feels you can change the weather building monuments to Gaia. We’re just thankful you get there’s a shortage of virgins for the volcanoes.
Merely burnishing their climate alarmist bonafides so they can be first to feed at the UN’s Loss and Damage money trough. I imagine a lot of that will wind up in the pockets of Alemu Sime and his “Leadership” buddies.
On a somewhat related note:
Volkswagen electric car sales plunge as Europe returns to petrol (paywalled)
Getting to about the time that early EV buyers will be wanting to up-grade…
… and are finding that the value of their old EV is basically ZERO. ! 😉
Fool ’em once, ………….maybe not fool ’em twice. !!
There are only so many lemmings who believe there is some sort of “energy transition” going on.
The “energy transition” is falling on its face.
I think the public is wising up to the drawbacks of EVs.
I had to sign up for this. Ethiopia where every once in a while is starvation? I’m not against EVs but call them a big failure. Most people in the rich countries can’t even afford them (and don’t want them). My biggest guess that ICE cars would stay in high demand for poor countries like in Africa. Maybe after a complete failure in the West and second hand prices plumitting for EVs it might be cheaper than diesal cars. It’s criminal for poor countries to waste the little they have on this kind of nonsense.
Or is it a money scheme to get free money from the West?
My bet is it is a money scheme. This whole “energy transition” is a money scheme. That’s why it continues on even as it becomes obvious it is not going to work.
Elsewhere the minister has noted: “that the nation’s inability to access favorable foreign exchange resources has contributed to its inability to afford to continue importing gasoline and diesel.”
It looks like it’s a bargaining position: lend us money or your car-makers will be shut out.
No, it’s about western car makers stalling innovation and now losing markets.
Wow, you really do believe the nonsense they are feeding you.
The only automakers who are losing share, are the ones who jumped heavily on the EV car bandwagon.
Grow up – it’s their call. If EVs were demanded by consumers and profitable for car makers to produce, there wouldn’t be any need for State coercion now, would there?
He’s 9.
Like all of us he will grow up in time.
But will he learn anything along the way??
Many brainwashed can NEVER learn.
With a population of almost 130m Ethiopia has less than 1m cars over 60% of which are in the capital Addis Ababa. Obviously the elites don’t what the rest to get above their station. I mean it’s not that big a country, surely they can cycle or walk? 🙂
Congratulations, Ethiopia is on track to become the first 15 minute city/country. This is just another slide down the WEF’s slippery slope of making all the “useless eaters” nonmobile. And, BTW, with the fuel costs, generation costs, losses in the step-up transformers, power lines, step-down transformers, chargers, and batteries (in the unaffordable, unreliable vehicles), the “environmental” and real costs of EVs greatly exceeds that of ICE vehicles. Better start investing in, and stocking up on, moonbeams, pixie dust, and unicorn farts.
With just 1 million cars for over 130 million people, I would say that Ethiopia already is a 15 minute country. A country where only the elite have the ability to travel, the ideal green/socialist country.
Ethiopia produces 5 hundredths of one percent of the world’s carbon emissions. Just what is the point of banning gas powered cars in Ethiopia? What is the point?
Power and money for those who run the asylum.
“However, the most recent data from the World Bank shows that just over 54% of people in Ethiopia have access to electricity. Furthermore, there are potential financial barriers to purchasing EVs and the lack of charging infrastructure.”
Good example of a disconnect between government policies and reality.
In addition, the majority of the 54% that do have access to electricity, that electricity is
1) Unreliable
2) Insufficient to charge an EV
3) Both
45 million tons
Heavy.
Unintended consequences will catch up to this real quick.
I wonder how long those EV batteries are going to last, bouncing along on the heavily rutted dirt roads outside the capital. Scraping bottom several times per mile.
They can always export them to the electric vehicle graveyards in China, where they will sit until the next conflagration.
Ethiopian government gives new meaning to the left’s favorite acronym DEI,
Diversity, Equity, Imbecile.