Ethiopia generates more than 96% of its electricity from renewable hydropower…
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For many in Ethiopia, where salaries are often less than €1000 a year, the starting price of a new electric car — €17,000 ($19,700/3.2 million Ethiopian birr) — is steep. But taxi driver Abdurahman Ali is happy he made the switch. […] “Before switching […] every month I would spend 40,000-50,000 birr on fuel. Since switching to electric and charging at home, my monthly costs have dropped to about 5,000 birr, at most. That’s a huge difference.”
That’s massive! Roughly, from €250 to €25 a month? Fuck, that’s some fabulous news right there. Go on, Mr. Ali!
Hell, even here in Australia I charge my ecar and ebike from solar panels on my roof >80% of the time, the rest of the time I use the cheap over night tarrif
this in a country with the highest penetrations of roof top solar and still something like 85% of new cars are oil burners and we import nearly all our fuel, fucking stupid people beyond words. (I’m talking about new car buyers here)
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That’s massive! Roughly, from €250 to €25 a month? Fuck, that’s some fabulous news right there. Go on, Mr. Ali!
Hell, even here in Australia I charge my ecar and ebike from solar panels on my roof >80% of the time, the rest of the time I use the cheap over night tarrif
this in a country with the highest penetrations of roof top solar and still something like 85% of new cars are oil burners and we import nearly all our fuel, fucking stupid people beyond words. (I’m talking about new car buyers here)
That’s pretty cool actually.
and yet, North American companies cannot do this math.