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"Like a lot of countries on the African continent, Ethiopia has an
exceptionally low motorisation rate. Ethiopia has a population of 126 million
people, but the total number of vehicles registered in Ethiopia is around 1.2
million. Most of these vehicles are over 20 years old. According to reports and
announcements from the Ethiopian government, Ethiopia had a plan to catalyse
adoption of electric vehicles in Ethiopia with a 10 year target to see 148,000
electric cars and close to 50,000 electric buses on Ethiopia’s roads by 2030.
However, Ethiopia has made incredible progress on this path to the extent that
the Ministry of Transport and Logistics recently said that this target of over
100,000 electric vehicle has already been met in just the first 2 years of this
plan! How cool is that?
Due to this incredible progress, the target has since been bumped up to close
to 500,000 in the 10-year period. Let’s take a moment to take this all in. So,
in just 2 years, locally assembled EVs and imported EVs have added almost 10%
of Ethiopia’s current total ICE vehicle registrations! Let us say that all the
vehicles in the current fleet stay on the road for the next 8 years (highly
unlikely) and the total fleet will then be 1.7 million. If the target is met,
it would mean the penetration of electric vehicles in Ethiopia’s total fleet
will be close to 30% at that time. This will be quite a remarkable feat. Of
course, the actual number will be more than 30%, as a lot of the vehicles in
the current ICE fleet will be retired by then. Also, given the extremely low
motorisation in Ethiopia, vehicle sales should grow at a much faster rate going
forward, and probably the penetration of EVs in the country’s total fleet will
hit close to 50% by then.
Another factor that will accelerate the population of EVs is the move by the
Ethiopian government to push for restrictions on all ICE vehicle imports. Late
last year, the Ethiopian govern announced that it was finalising the process to
ban all ICE imports in the extremely near future. A total ban on ICE imports!
Not a plan to phase out new ICE vehicle registration by 2035 or 2040, no, but
an impending immediate ban! Drastic but understandable. Ethiopia spends over $5
billion USD annually on petrol and diesel imports, precious foreign currency it
does not have. Ethiopia has also recently started generating electricity from
the first units at the 5-gigawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, adding to
its other hydro and renewable energy resources. Electricity is ridiculously
cheap in Ethiopia at under 1¢ USD per kWh in many cases. Ethiopia therefore
wants to save as much foreign currency from that fuel import bill as possible,
and EV drivers of course will be benefiting from some unbelievably cheap
electricity, which will lower their transport costs."
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