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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

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)