Damascus, Oct 30, 2026 (AFP) - Dodging fuel price hikes, Damascus drivers turn to electric cars

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Taxi driver Mohammed Kanaan drives his shiny new electric car around Damascus's rundown streets, hoping for higher profits as spiking petrol prices made his old car too expensive to run. He is among some in the Syrian capital who are steering towards electric cars -- mostly Chinese-made -- after repeated fuel shortages during the country's civil war and petrol price hikes, most recently due to the Middle East war. "I used to have a car that ran o......

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