Production of solar-powered cars in UAE: A reality closer than you think

Production of solar-powered cars in UAE: A reality closer than you think

As the world makes concerted efforts to avoid a major climate catastrophe, electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are in a race to produce cars that can run on renewable energy, thereby mitigating the damage done to Earth by transportation run on conventional fuel. Almost all major car manufacturers are investing billions of dollars on research, more efficient batteries and charging stations. The world awaits the most optimal electric cars run on clean energy, while the climate change spectre looms large over a polluted earth. According to Global EV Outlook 2022, sales of EVs doubled in 2021 over 2020 to a new record of 6.6 million. Nearly 10 per cent of global car sales were electric in 2021, four times the market share in 2019. This brought the total number of electric cars on roads to about 16.5 million, triple 2018’s total. Global sales of electric cars have kept rising, with two million sold in Q1-22, up 75 per cent from the same period in 2021. The European Parliament has taken a decision to ban sales of new vehicles with combustion engines, voting to make the production of diesel and petrol cars a thing of the past in the bloc, starting in