Electric vehicle and battery engineering

Design electric cars, their batteries, motors and chargers.

• Battery chemistry
• Electric motors
• Power electronics
• Charging systems

In Arabic: هندسة المركبات الكهربائية والبطاريات

Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:

• Battery engineer
• Electric vehicle engineer
• Power electronics engineer
• Charging network engineer

Professional classification with the Saudi Council of Engineers.

GASTAT does not publish pay for each major; this is the average for the “Engineering, manufacturing and construction” field among Saudi bachelor’s holders, 2024 (1445–1446 AH)¹.

Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)¹:

• 20211442–1443 AH5.6%
• 20221443–1444 AH5.3%
• 20231444–1445 AH5.0%
• 20241445–1446 AH4.6%

For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.

Example programmes abroad

• University of Warwick (WMG), Sustainable Automotive Electrification MSc
• Coventry University, Electrical Automotive Engineering MSc

• Autonomous and electric vehicle specialists appear in the list of fastest-growing roles to 2030 (1451–1452 AH).²
• Ceer is the first Saudi electric car brand, headquartered in Riyadh.³