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KARACHI: Sazgar Engineering Works Ltd (SEWL) has successfully assembled Pakistan’s first hybrid electric vehicle (HEV).

The company in a filing to Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday said the vehicle was being launched under the brand name “Haval” on Nov 17 in Lahore. It’s a joint venture between SEWL and Great Wall Motor of China.

Sources said the price of Haval HEV H6 vehicle is expected to be around Rs9.9 million for the filers.

However, it is not clear how many HEV vehicles would be rolled out every month as the company would determine the production volume as per market demand.

Consumers would get the delivery of HEV vehicles in three to four months after booking.

In August this year, SEWL in a stock filing said it had completed the trial operation of Haval vehicles successfully well before the stipulated time and the first rollout of vehicles was expected in August.

Published in Dawn, November 17th, 2022

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Nov 17, 2022 11:08am

Great move and wonderful news.

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mann

Nov 17, 2022 11:52am

its only assembly of vehicle not manufactured nor made in the country. Its only chinese which lacks quality. Pakistan can do better. plenty of brains in the country.

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SYED SAJID ALI

Nov 17, 2022 01:01pm

Just another assembly plant.

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Rambo

Nov 17, 2022 01:39pm

No long term strategy - instead of brining these cars Pakistan should have worked on exporting cars assembled here such as Toyota, Suzuki and Honda. Instead they are importing more cars? We dont even have gear box or break pads manufacturing indigenously.

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Akram

Nov 17, 2022 03:03pm

@Rambo, perhaps you should try building something?

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Dr. Khan, Asadullah

Nov 17, 2022 08:49pm

Chinese cars are great competitors to the big brands in Pakistan with high quality, fuel efficiency and advanced features. Pakistani talent has to learn these technologic traits faster and unleash revolution, which is always born out of necessity and frustration.

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test

Nov 17, 2022 10:10pm

Nothing new there is already a lot of assembly plants which are dominated by politicians, corrupt policy makers and corrupt businessmen who spend our hard earned forex on importing manufactured products and then in Pakistan they just join the parts and that's it and fool the public in the name of 'Made in Pakistan'. There is a very big difference between assembling and manufacturing which our elite know but they never tell public and instead they are fooling uneducated with 'Made in Pakistan'.

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Anonymouseee

Nov 17, 2022 10:55pm

Mashallah. Congrats Pakistan.

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test1

Nov 17, 2022 11:03pm

@Akram, Why not you build something instead of asking others ? I mean it is really very easy to ask other people to do this or do that. I am just saying that everybody has a mind but not everybody knows how to use it properly or how to use mind power to their advantage but yeah if you build something people will really get some motivation from you even if some people build something because of anyone then nothing can be better than that. So never ask others to build if you aren't proper example.

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Ibrahim S

Nov 18, 2022 03:12am

{Sources said the price of Haval HEV H6 vehicle is expected to be around Rs9.9 million for the filers.} How many people could afford this far. Is Pakistan a poor country ?

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Ukasha Rajpoot

Nov 18, 2022 07:26am

Congrats to the whole team. Price is little too high.

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