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Foundation stone laid for Lucid plant in Rabigh Saudi Arabia aims to manufacture 300,000 cars annually by 2030 – Alkhorayef
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 18 - 05 - 2022

RIYADH — Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef announced that Saudi Arabia is targeting manufacturing of more than 300,000 cars annually by the year 2030.
He said this during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the electric car plant of Lucid Motors at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Rabigh on Wednesday. The electric vehicle giant's first international plant at KAEC targets manufacturing of 150,000 vehicles per year.
Alkhorayef, who is also chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF), said that Lucid's choice of Saudi Arabia as the headquarters of its first plant in the Middle East confirms the Kingdom's competitiveness and its ability to exploit a number of advantages it enjoys.
These advantages are the distinguished geographical location, and the ability to connect with many regional and global markets, in addition to good infrastructure and quality of services. The KAEC plant aims to export more than 85 percent of its production.
According to the minister, the dossier of the automotive industry in the Kingdom is one of the important files that the national strategy for industry has taken into account as it is one of the complex industries that contribute to the development of supply chains for many products.
"The Kingdom aims to manufacture cars to cover the local demand and export globally. The volume of spending on cars in the Kingdom during the year 2020 reached nearly SR40 billion while the size of the Saudi market exceeds more than half a million cars annually, which represents 50 percent of the Gulf market," he said.
He noted that the SIDF has provided financing for the construction of the Lucid plant, with a value of more than SR5 billion.
Alkhorayef said that the establishment of a new manufacturing center for Lucid company in Saudi Arabia comes in line with the Kingdom's directions aimed at diversifying the economic base, especially the development of the industrial sector.
The Saudi government had agreed to buy between 50,000 and 100,000 electric vehicles within ten years from Lucid Motors, which is part-owned by Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), the Ministry of Finance said in a press statement in September 2021.
The agreement is part of the Vision 2030 plan to diversify away from fossil fuels and create a more sustainable society.
Lucid currently manufactures cars at a plant in Arizona and the KAEC plant would assemble its electric vehicles. The factory is expected to eventually build up to 150,000 electric vehicles per year.
Both factories will build the new vehicles ordered by the Saudi government. The KAEC plant will provide thousands of jobs for Saudis. PIF owns 61 percent of the California-headquartered Lucid company.


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