Saudi Arabia is about to launch a Lucid Air police cruiser, as highlighted in a current preview of a protection convention beginning this weekend.
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of the Inside posted a brief video of the car on X on Sunday, exhibiting the Lucid Air police cruiser in close-ups and as a number one car within the firm’s safety car fleet. The video is slightly beneath a minute and a half lengthy, and it comes simply because the nation’s World Protection Present is about to start on Sunday.
You may see a singular siren on the high of the car, together with the phrase “Police” written on the edges, again, and hood, in addition to the brand for the Saudi Arabia Common Directorate of Public Safety. As well as, the video exhibits a compartment opening from the highest of the cruiser’s abnormally-large siren, exhibiting a drone because it flies out and ascends into the sky.
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Safety efforts, superior applied sciences, for the way forward for a protected and thriving nation.#WDS2024#EquippedForTomorrow pic.twitter.com/75K8lnmgvt
— وزارة الداخلية (@MOISaudiArabia) February 3, 2024
The video ends with data for the upcoming World Protection Present, and it comes a couple of days after some reported that the Lucid police cruiser can be shared on the convention.
Only a few days in the past, the Saudi Arabia information account SaudiProject additionally posted a photograph of the Lucid Air police automotive on X, including that the particular police car design will probably be unveiled on the protection convention, which is going down within the nation’s capital metropolis of Riyadh from February 4 to eight. The publish included a photograph of the Lucid Air patrol automotive wrapped in plastic forward of the convention, with the phrases “Police” and “911” clearly seen on the entrance finish of the car’s hood.
شركة #لوسِد_موتورز تنفذ تصميم خاص لمركبات الأمن العام في السعودية، من المتوقع الكشف عنها على هامش معرض الدفاع العالمي خلال الأسبوع القادم pic.twitter.com/aNH7zoBceJ
— مشاريع السعودية (@SaudiProject) January 31, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF) owns round 61 % of Lucid’s shares, and the automaker was the primary to open a manufacturing facility within the Center Japanese nation when it launched the location in September. The automaker additionally started delivering the Lucid Air in Saudi Arabia final June, and in 2022 the corporate introduced a fleet deal for 100,000 EVs over a ten-year span.
Final month, a Lucid government mentioned that round 800 Air sedans had been assembled on the Saudi Arabia plant. The chief additionally detailed the corporate’s means of constructing the car at its AMP-1 manufacturing facility in Casa Grande, Arizona, earlier than de-assembling it and transport it to Saudi Arabia, the place it’s re-assembled and re-tested by employees who’re in coaching.
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