On May 25th, the Egyptian Prime Minister, Sherif Ismail, added the first Electric Vehicle Rally in Egypt under his sponsorship. The first Electric Vehicle Rally (E.V.E.R for short) has been provisionally set to begin September of this year. The project is owned by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and organized by the Innovation Hub (iHub) of the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. The national scale racing event aims to be much more than just an adrenaline rising event for car enthusiasts, but also aims to introduce the concept of homegrown electric vehicles (EV) in addition to increasing public awareness of green, efficient vehicles along with the local human resource capability. The main goal is to develop collective manpower of Egyptian engineers who are capable of designing, manufacturing and testing their own local electric vehicles since Electric Vehicles are becoming a popular topic for research projects. Ain Shams University Professor Mohamed AbdelAziz, the project’s technical advisor, told Egyptian Streets that, “One of the event targets is the capacity building for a new generation of engineers in the field of Electric Vehicles Engineering. It provides a new pool…
