Casablanca – Speaking at the inaugural ceremony Green Impact Expo & Summit today in Casablanca, Morocco’s Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, outlined the country’s bold vision for sustainable mobility.
Morocco is working on joining an elite group of only 5-6 nations worldwide with complete electric vehicle manufacturing capabilities, from raw material processing to final assembly, he revealed.
“We will be one of 5 or 6 countries in the world that will have all battery elements manufactured here: the anode, the separator, the electrolyte, the cell, the module, and the car,” the minister said, noting that this will take place “not in 10 years from now, not in 20 years from now; it’s for next year and it has already begun.”
This end-to-end production chain, encompassing everything from mining phosphate and cobalt to manufacturing battery components and assembling vehicles, positions Morocco as the only country in the Euro-African region with such comprehensive capabilities.
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“It will probably also be the only country in the Euro-African region – I repeat, for those who haven’t heard yet – the only country in the Euro-African region that will have this capacity to produce an electric vehicle from mine to car. From phosphate ore, from cobalt ore to electric vehicles,” Mezzour explained.
According to the minister, this strategic positioning is expected to triple Morocco’s exports by 2030-2032.
As Morocco prepares for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, the minister announced ambitious plans to revolutionize public transportation across the country.
The government has initiated a large-scale procurement program for 7,000 electric buses, with the first tender already launched for 1,300 vehicles.
While only 30 electric buses are included in the initial phase, Mezzour pledged that at least half of the remaining 6,000 buses will be electric.
The government is working on investments to produce 400-kilowatt urban electric buses in Morocco that “today can be purchased between 180,000 and 200,000 dollars,” he stressed.
Mezzour concluded that this ambitious vision is in line with Morocco’s broader strategy in the green transition and zero-carbon emission.
