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MAYS passes fifty deliveries with a 4,000-vehicle export pipeline behind it

The Omani EV maker says it has shipped more than fifty cars at home and has roughly 4,000 units queued for export. Only the fifty have buyers attached.

Omani electric vehicle maker MAYS crossed fifty cars delivered this summer, and the company puts the order book for overseas sales at roughly four thousand vehicles. Both figures came from co-founder Haider bin Adnan al-Zaabi, in an interview published by Muscat Daily on 8 August.

Of the domestic total, the company says buyers include government bodies as well as private companies. It is the only part of the pipeline where a customer category is attached to a number at all — the four thousand is a headline figure, and nothing in the interview pairs a destination country with a quantity.

Regionally, the company was willing to go one level deeper: about 1,300 of the export total sits in North Africa, with seven markets in various stages of entry. That still leaves the majority of the pipeline spread across unnamed destinations, and no delivery dates on any of it.

The company's plan, as described in the interview, is to work with manufacturing partners abroad while keeping operations in Oman — an export model built on partnerships rather than on building plants in each market.

For context on how young this business is: MAYS announced an investment agreement with the Oman Technology Fund at Expo 2020 in October 2021, unveiled its first car in February 2022, and recorded its first ten deliveries only in February 2025. The step from ten to fifty took roughly six months. The step from fifty to four thousand is the one no one outside the company can yet count.