and if they're smart they'll build out bike lanes and rail transit instead of multi-lane freeways. it's not like even American can afford that shit
Comment on Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars
admiralteal@kbin.social 9 months ago155k registered motor vehicles in Ethiopia for a population of about 130 million. Is it really so unimaginable to you that a country may not be car-dependent?
Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 months ago
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are scooters excluded from that count? I’m guessing scooters and motorcycles dominate the roads. Electrifying those are a little more challenging.
Getting cars off gas is a great start though.
Pretzilla@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Akschully, escooters and ebikes are still the most efficient and easiest to electrify.
And they charge quickly from any wall outlet, so not much additional infrastructure is required.
A single 400w solar panel will charge an ebike pretty fast.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The trade off from a 20 year old bike that gets 40+mpg doesn’t make sense.
Pretzilla@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Somewhat true in the short term. Also very appropriate to electro for an EV future.
admiralteal@kbin.social 9 months ago
I have no idea what the specific requirements for vehicle registration are. I doubt this article is even true, frankly.
But electrifying smaller vehicles is much, much easier than electrifying large vehicles. The biggest cost center in an EV is the battery, and smaller vehicles need proportionally way less battery compared to large vehicles. An ebike that can go 20-30mph runs off of something not substantially different from a cordless tool battery -- a pack of cheap, commodity 18650s -- and otherwise functions off of totally standard, mechanically simple parts.