Lebanon launches first electric car at price of Dhs110,000
2 hours ago A model leans on the hood of the Quds Rise, the first ever electric car produced in Lebanon, during an unveiling ceremony in Khaldeh on Saturday. AFP
A Lebanon-made electric car made its debut on Saturday, the first time the Mediterranean country has manufactured an automobile, despite struggling amid a dire economic crisis with frequent power cuts.
The red sports car named Quds Rise, using the Arabic name of Jerusalem is the project of Lebanese-born Palestinian businessman Jihad Mohammad.
It s the first automobile to be made locally, Mohammad told reporters, at the unveiling in a parking lot south of Beirut.
A Lebanon-made electric car has made its debut, the first time the Mediterranean country has manufactured an automobile, despite struggling amid a dire economic crisis with frequent power cuts.
The red sports car – named “Quds Rise”, using the Arabic name of Jerusalem – is the project of Lebanese-born Palestinian businessman Jihad Mohammad.
It’s the “first automobile to be made locally,” Mohammad told reporters on Saturday, at the unveiling in a parking lot south of Beirut.
It was built in Lebanon “from start to finish”, he said of the prototype, emblazoned at the front with a golden logo of the Dome of the Rock, the shrine in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site.
Lebanon launches first electric car despite economic crisis
AFP/Beirut Filed on April 24, 2021
A model leans on the hood of the Quds Rise , the first ever electric car produced in Lebanon, during an unveiling ceremony in Khaldeh, south of the capital Beirut, on Saturday.
(AFP)
Production of up to 10,000 vehicles is hoped to start later this year in Lebanon, says businessman Jihad Mohammad
A Lebanon-made electric car made its debut Saturday, the first time the Mediterranean country has manufactured an automobile, despite struggling amid a dire economic crisis with frequent power cuts.
The red sports car named “Quds Rise”, using the Arabic name of Jerusalem is the project of Lebanese-born Palestinian businessman Jihad Mohammad.
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