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DICE Foundation unveiled Pakistan’s first car, the NUR-E.75, on the
occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day here at Beach luxury Hotel
Karachi. Proud moment for Pakistani engineers and nation.
The diamond jubilee of Pakistan marks the unveiling ceremony of the
country’s first indigenous electric car, NURE-75. The car is developed
and designed by DICE foundation which is a gift for the nation. This
proves to be a great achievement as it is a step towards prosperity of
the country.
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DICE foundation is a US based nonprofit organization run by foreign
Pakistani individuals and supported by the students and engineers of NED
University and industry. The name NURE-75 comes from the Urdu word Noor
and the 75 represents Pakistan’s 75th anniversary. The electric car
company is named JAXARI(JXI) after the renowned scientist and scholar
Al-Jazari.
Brief history of Pakistan car Industry:
In 2005-2006, under the government of President G.Pervaiz Musharraf,
many car companies were introduced in Pakistan, hence this period is
known as the golden period. One of the companies named ADAM motors
launched a few new cars but the production was halted in 3-4 years. And
now after 14 years , Pakistan is about to launch it’s own electric car
at 14 August, 2022.
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Why we need electric cars:
According to the DICE foundation chairman Dr Khursheed Quraishi, we need
electric cars for a multitude of reasons. One of them being to combat
climate change as we know that the car is eco friendly and limits the
fossil fuels. It also exploit the engineering capability of our young
engineers which in the long run, will increase demand and opportunities
for Pakistani Engineers.It’s introduction will bring prosperity to our
economy, which will help Pakistan to establish it’s position among other
developed countries of the world.
Details of NURE-75:
It is a 5 seats, 5 door car with all the basic car functions including
an A-C, bluetooth, reverse camera and hopefully two air bags. It is
equipped with 35kilo watt battery with charging time of 7-8 hours at
home socket at 220 volts. It possesses 2 driving modes, eco and sports.
The car is solely designed by Pakistani engineers as Dr. Khursheed also
said that the entire vehicle control was also designed in Pakistan. It
is expected that the production of the car will commence by the end of
the year 2024. Let’s hope that the project proves to be a great success
and will be the fore runner of many achievements ahead.
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