Lebanon releases its first electric vehicle
A Lebanon-based car manufacturer EV Electra launched its first electric vehicle called “Quds Rise” on Saturday. It is the first electric vehicle made in Lebanon “from start to finish” and has a price tag of $30,000, half of which buyers will be able to pay in Lebanese pounds at an exchange rate better than the black market one.
The “Quds Rise” name comes from the Arabic name of Jerusalem, while the front of the car is made in the shape of the Dome of the Rock, the shrine in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site.
The company is looking to produce 10,000 vehicles later this year, despite Lebanon’s worst economic crisis in decades and lowest car import figures. The country currently relies heavily on fossil fuels for power generation and suffers daily electricity outages.
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