EVIQ — the joint venture between the Public Investment Fund and the Saudi Electricity Company — is building the Kingdom’s national charging network.
The company is targeting five thousand chargers across a thousand sites by 2030, having completed sixty stations in Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province.
Priority in 2026 goes to the long desert routes, foremost the Riyadh–Jeddah corridor, with ultra-fast chargers of between 150 and 350 kilowatts at principal stops such as Afif and Al Quwaiiyah.
Charging inside cities is solvable at home; intercity journeys have no solution but a motorway network.
The choice of those points reveals the planning logic: charging inside cities is a problem solvable with domestic and commercial chargers, while intercity journeys have no solution but a motorway network.
The broader government target runs to thirty thousand charging stations nationwide — a figure that makes clear this is being treated as national infrastructure rather than a private-sector initiative.
