Riyadh,SPA :

 Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) signed yesterday a cooperation agreement with three Japanese companies to implement "Electric Motor Pilot Project in the Kingdom" aiming to evaluate and develop this trend and reduce the percentage of pollution associated with similar vehicles operating with internal combustion engines.

The executive vice president for engineering and projects in the Saudi Electricity Company Engineer Khalid bin Saad Al-Rashid explained during
the signing the agreement with officials of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Nissan Motor Company, and Takaoka Tokyo Energy Solution Company that the project is an important step in the transfer of modern technologies for the expansion of electric energy use in general and electric vehicle technology in particular and the coming period will see further efforts to assess the utilization of such promising experiments.