Electric Vehicle Sales Boom as Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports

When this was first discussed, the thread was…skeptical to say the least, but it has been proven to be a success.

We continue to reach combustion->EV tipping points country by country.

It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243196 - February 2024 (69 comments)

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

Hundreds of millions of rural farmers will be able to install solar pv charging for cars and small trucks, as even once weekly trips to central markets will be adequate, smaller scooters and motorcycles will get people to school and work, cellular data gives them access to all modern services, making a variety of rural distributed economic models viable.