Stations to charge electric cars .. Empire of the Egyptian army expands

Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo

The Ministry of State for Military Production has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China's SSE and Marathon International Technology Co., Ltd. to establish a factory to produce electric car charging stations.

The ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that "the project comes within the framework of the localization of technology for the manufacture of electric vehicles."

During President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's visit to China in April, the Ministry of Military Production's armored production and repair plant signed an agreement with Chinese company Foton to manufacture 2,000 electric buses over four years.

In September, the ministry signed another agreement with China 's Geely to produce electric private cars.

This expansion in electric car manufacturing comes in light of the continuation of the campaign "Let it tackle", launched by the pioneers of social networking sites in early January, due to high prices of ordinary cars, especially imported from the European Union, which was lifted by customs at the beginning of the year, excessively .

Since the overthrow of the late President Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013, the military has expanded significantly in economic life, and estimates vary as to the size of the military's role in the local economy.

While Sisi asserts that the military economy does not exceed 3% of the domestic economy, unofficial estimates put it more than 50%.

The Egyptian army oversees some 2,300 projects, employing five million civil servants in all disciplines, the military spokesman said earlier.