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Hyundai sets sights on Saudi Arabian EV plant to spearhead Middle Eastern rollout (electrek.co)

submitted 9 months ago by PanArab@lemm.ee to c/electricvehicles@lemm.ee

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[–] ByteWizard@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

EVs will never work in a place like Saudi Arabia.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why? Even here it is cheaper to fill up an EV than a petrol or diesel vehicle.

Even if they don’t work because it regularly exceeds 50C here. We can still export them, and we can still build a local supply chain around lithium processing and battery manufacturing.

Saudi Arabia expands lithium processing to supply BMW

Saudi Arabia's next act is supplying the world with EV batteries

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Why?