The ‘Gauss Auto Group,’ a Chinese corporation, has announced plans to build an electric vehicle (EV) plant in Pakistan’s special economic zone near Port Qasim in Karachi. The 1000 acres plant will be set up as a joint venture (JV) with AKD group Holdings (Pvt) ltd.
The Gauss Auto Group partner is the British CCA company, RML, German EDAG, Italian IDG, having a highly experienced team in the field of energy vehicles from world renowned companied like Audi, Ford, Tesla and the US Department of Energy.
The CEO of Gauss Auto, Cheng Feng and the CEO of AKD holdings, Nasir Rizwan led a delegation and visited the Board of Investment to discuss their intentions regarding their collaboration and business and an opportunity to export EVs abroad from Pakistan. The federal minister BoI Chaudhary Salik Hussain was also present. The delegation delivered a comprehensive presentation of their production plant and appraised the federal investment office of the variants of the vehicles they were already producing.