The rules of the game will change. Vehicles towards zero neutrality

 

Arab countries continue to advance towards clean energy and are implementing plans in the field of renewable energy and environmentally friendly transport technologies, in pursuit of their commitments to zero emissions initiatives.

These include the adoption of electric cars that will change the rules of the game in the automotive market, where they will become less dependent on the most polluting energy for the environment, as well as the development of public transport.

Sales of electric cars worldwide reached 6.6 million in 2021, up from 3 million in 2020 and 2.2 million in 2019, while only 130,000 electric vehicles were sold in 2012, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency, which confirmed that car growth in 2021 was supported by electric car sales.

Ahmed Samir Al Barmbali, Director General of the Dubai Clean Energy Industries Council, told Sky News Arabia that 30 percent of carbon emissions in the Middle East and North Africa are caused by public transport and transport in all its forms, whether individual cars or public transport, describing the percentage as very large.

He pointed out that efforts are being made today to adopt electric cars and to switch to advanced public transport, especially since it may take up to 40 years to convert ordinary cars working on the roads to electricity.

 He explains that electric cars, despite their high price, remain much cheaper than regular cars, as the price of a regular car and the cost of fuel for three years is equivalent to the price of an environmentally friendly electric car, which is more expensive and does not need maintenance like the normal one.

There is no doubt that the adoption of electric cars does not end the problem because there are carbon emissions from the manufacture of the car and the electricity in which it is shipped. Thus, according to Al-Barmbali, the most efficient step is to reduce the number of cars and go to public transport, which in turn requires working to accept the issue among people and change the prevailing culture.

Karim Moussa, an expert on electrical mobility, told Sky News Arabia that we are no longer talking about gasoline in light of the new opportunities available, as we are talking about electric cars and electrical mobility, as anyone can generate this energy in their home, by putting solar energy slides, turning them into electricity and pumping them into the car battery.

Moussa revealed that the consumer now has options and possibilities, which were not in his hands in normal daily mobility, he is able today to charge the battery of the electric car at home, and fill it from zero in 6 to 8 hours, to travel a distance of 300 to 600 kilometers.

 He pointed out that governments in the Gulf countries are communicating with car makers, to take into account their demands and what they need to increase sales of electric cars in the region gulf states, expecting a rapid spread of electric cars under the government support that currently exists through government investments in the private sector.

Moussa said the change in infrastructure is not easy, as it needs coordination between those who have nothing to do with mobility, such as those involved in electricity who have to intervene and legislate laws and regulations, and take action and set the necessary standards.