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Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal
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The new company is a joint venture between Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and Foxconn.
The new company is a joint venture between Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and Foxconn.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves — not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production. So it was a little surprising on Monday when a Saudi startup called Ceer unveiled a pair of hyper-angular, spaceship-like EVs, with plans to launch an additional five models by 2030.
The Exobot (yes, that’s the real name) sedan and SUV are expected to go on sale in Saudi Arabia starting in 2027. The ultra-futuristic designs scream Tron, Blade Runner, and every other sci-fi movie you’ve seen — and then some. The gullwing doors are ripped straight from the Tesla Model X (which, of course, was ripped straight from the DeLorean and a range of other rare production cars). Wild and wedge-shaped, the Exobots seemed built explicitly to draw attention. Which, in an attention-based economy, is probably the right strategy.
The sedan Exobot has low-slung, supercar proportions with a steeply raked windshield that flows seamlessly into the hood. The front fascia features a razor-thin, full-width LED light bar nestled under a sharp, forward-jutting nose, giving it a mean, visor-like glare. The two-tone bodywork and ample windshield immediately had me thinking about the Ferrari Luce, the polarizing electric supercar released earlier this year.