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

2026-02-18 - 01:33

(Bloomberg) — Bethelhem Eshetie gave up driving her taxi two years ago. The rising cost of gas and the spare parts needed to keep her old car on the road meant that she couldn’t earn enough to make ends meet. “It was no longer worth it,” she said. Six months later, though, she was back on the road, this time in a brand new BenBen E-Star, an electric vehicle made by the Chinese carmaker Chang’an. Read More