It might be renowned for producing the stuff that our internal-combustion-engined cars run on, but now Saudi Arabia is turning its attention to something very different entirely: electric vehicles.
What you’re looking at here is the Exobot Sedan and the Exobot SUV. Designed and manufactured by startup CEER Motors (Saudi Arabia’s "first homegrown automotive brand”)—it has been greenlit for production by the Crown Prince himself.
Certainly aren’t shy, are they? Measuring over five meters long and two meters wide, both the sedan and the SUV are supremely wedgy. We’re also told that at 2.4 meters long, the windshield is the largest ever fitted to a production car.
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Both also feature nearly three meters of ‘Shahin Wing’ top-hinged door (inspired by a falcon of the same name, apparently) complete with a unique lower glass panel thatyou can set to transparent or opaque. The latter being useful if you want to hide the fact that you’re not wearing any trousers.
The whole design is reportedly “grounded in Saudi historic relevance,” though we’re not seeing too many retro touches. All pretty futuristic, actually. You will have spotted the 32 separate lights front and rear, though. They reference the year 1932 when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed.
Step inside and this thing is truly a rolling lounge, with a 48-inch pillar-to-pillar curved 8K display, plus a 10.4-inch central touchscreen. Heck, even rear passengers get their own eight-inch display. But not a steering yoke—that’s reserved for the driver only.
And if you’re worried that all that glass will see the cabin getting rather toasty—this being Saudi Arabia and all that—fear not, because the Exobot gets something called ’Halo Cooling’ that can reduce cabin temperatures from 65 degrees to 32 degrees Celsius within 10 minutes.
The steering is by-wire, with the rear wheels also turning to make both Exobots feel that little bit more nimble. Power comes from three electric motors, capable of delivering up to 1,096hp and 1,498Nm of torque to all four wheels. That results in a 0-100kph time of 2.1sec for the sedan and 2.4sec for the SUV. Good luck keeping your breakfast down...
The whole tri-motor setup is mated to a 112kWh battery that gives the sedan a range of up to 669.5km, and the SUV up to 560km. We’re told a 10% to 80% charge takes under 30 minutes thanks to its 800V architecture.
Production will be based at King Abdullah Economic City, the largest manufacturing facility in the Middle East, and the Exobots are the first of seven models planned for launch by 2030. Watch this space.
More photos of the CEER Exobot Sedan and Exobot SUV:
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made
