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DEWA accelerates Dubai’s shift to sustainable mobility by expanding EV Green Charger network · DEWA Podcasts

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  Dubai's roads are getting, well, quieter and
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  cleaner. Last year, the Emirates saw this massive
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  acceleration in its shift to green mobility.
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  I mean, electric vehicles are gaining some serious
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  traction. You've been looking at the latest report
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  from the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority,
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  or DIWA, and the numbers are pretty striking.
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  They really are. So by the end of 2025, the number
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  of EVs in Dubai jumped to nearly 48 ,000. That's
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  a single -year increase of more than 10 ,000
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  vehicles, or about 28%. This isn't a slow trickle.
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  It's a wave of adoption. And you can't have that
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  many EVs without the infrastructure to support
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  them, right? What's the secret behind that growth?
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  Well, it's a combination of strategy and partnership.
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  Diwa's Green Charger initiative has now supplied
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  enough power for, get this, over 276 million
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  kilometers of emission -free travel. But the
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  key driver, that was a new regulatory framework
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  they launched in late 2024. It basically streamlined
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  the whole process for both Diwa and private companies
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  to build out the charging network. And that network
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  now stands at over 1 ,000. So this is all a core
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  part of Dubai's larger environmental strategy.
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  Precisely. The vision was laid out perfectly
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  by His Excellency Saeed Mohammed Altair, the
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  MD and CEO of Diwa. He actually stated, Diwa
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  is committed to reinforcing the UAE's regional
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  leadership in the adoption of electric and hybrid
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  vehicles, while supporting Dubai's pioneering
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  role in green and sustainable mobility. According
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  to the directives of the WISE leadership and
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  in alignment with the UAE's Net Zero 2050 strategy
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  and the Dubai Green Mobility Strategy 2030, we
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  are collaborating closely with our partners to
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  strengthen Dubai's successful plans. and enhance
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  its competitiveness as it transitions towards
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  sustainable and environmentally friendly transport,
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  aiming to improve air quality and reduce carbon
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  emissions within the sector. That's a powerful
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  statement of intent, and we're already seeing
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  it translate into these huge deals with entities
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  like the Dubai Taxi Company, Parkin, and Enoch,
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  and they're planning to install hundreds of new
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  ultra -fast chargers. It really seems like the
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  momentum is only just beginning. Exactly. They
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  are building the infrastructure not just for
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  today, but for a fully electric future. Now,
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  here's a question we'd like you to think about.
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  As public charging infrastructure becomes as
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  common as, say, the traditional petrol station,
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  how might that change not just where we drive,
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  but how we design our cities and our communities?