Strategy for electric car manufacturing in Egypt imperative – ZAWYA

  • Date: 22-Feb-2020
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Egypt
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Strategy for electric car manufacturing in Egypt imperative – ZAWYA

Strategy for electric car manufacturing in Egypt imperative. The government is also planning to equip all new cities with the infrastructure to charge electric cars, as the Ministry of Trade and Industry discussed the strategy of producing electric cars and their chargers in Egypt. The Egyptian government seeks to gain more ground in the electric car industry by providing the necessary investments, and keeping abreast on current global trends to refrain from pollution.. Major General Hussein Mustafa, an expert in car manufacturing and the former executive director of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said that the state's orientation to clean energy, whether electric or compressed natural gas, comes in conjunction with the state's direction to develop a strategy for electric cars and executing it legislatively.. As for electric passenger cars, it is still too early to produce and manufacture them locally, and it doesn't help that there is a scarcity of charging stations in the roads.. One of the obstacles facing the spread of electric cars in Egypt is the lack of power stations, which needs to be placed in all highways and throughout metropolitan areas.. Tawfiq praised the government's support of electric cars and local industry, stressing that this