How Ethiopia Is Becoming an Unlikely Leader in the Electric Vehicle Revolution
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Ethiopia is emerging as a leader in the electric vehicle revolution, leveraging its green energy resources to transition away from petrol and diesel cars, with HN users generally welcoming this development.
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more_corn
2 months ago
1 replyThey have 100 chargers in the whole country? None outside the capital, and no plan to import electric trucks? (Not that there are any on the market)
This seems like a recipe for disaster.
xbmcuserAuthor
2 months ago
What do you mean by no plans they banned ice trucks that is the plan just how they banned ice cars now only electric trucks will be allowed to be imported.
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