EV sales in Ecuador are surging despite crippling power cuts Rest of World By: Carolina Loza León and Daniela Dib 16 January 2025 at 06:00 In 2020, Priscila Chalán, a taxi driver in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, ditched her gas-fueled car in favor of an electric vehicle made by Chinese company BYD. She was... © Rodrigo Buendia / AFP via Getty ImagesA view of Quito before a national scheduled fourteen-hour blackout on October 25, 2024.