Electric Vehicles

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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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Ethiopia goes electric following gas car ban (www.dw.com)

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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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[–] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Good ICE engines are extremely hard to build. Modern ICE engines are pretty much an engineering miracle, which is one of the reasons China never managed to get into the market of ICE cars, and why Korean cars took decades to catch up to western manufacturers

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Modern ICE engines are still terrible.

They're like, what, 20% efficient? It's just trash technology

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I agree, EVs are much better. I'm just pointing out that domestic ICE production is difficult. Building electric motors is easy