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Electric Vehicles and Africa: No Place for Rich Boys’ Toys

Electric Vehicles and Africa: No Place for Rich Boys’ Toys
View of a sign indicating a charging station in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 19, 2022. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images
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Electric vehicles (EV) are a poster child for the so-called green transition. Even in some of the world’s poorest economies, an unquestioning embrace of all things “green” on the part of political elites powers a push for the adoption of electric vehicles.

Vijay Jayaraj
Vijay Jayaraj
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Vijay Jayaraj is a research associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India.
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