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Fossil fuels have been discovered since the industrial revolution in the 18th century, over the centuries, fossil fuel consumption has increased significantly where global consumption increased between 2007 and 2017 from 86.8 to 97.2 million barrels per day. In 2018, the consumption has been increased to reach about 1.6 billion barrels per day until today. Fossil fuels still considered an essential and ideal source of energy worldwide, as many industries and transportation sectors around the world depend on fossil fuels, as a result, fossil fuel reserves are depleting. Furthermore, fossil fuels come with several negative impacts whereby burning fossil fuel will produce carbon dioxide which is considered the largest driver of global climate change. In addition, fossil fuels are a major contributor to local air pollution, which caused many respiratory diseases. As of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, new environmental policies are being developed to reduce carbon emissions, and to achieve that, there is a strong push to use clean energy and resources such as solar and wind energy. Our project aims to design an electric vehicle (EV) to help reduce air pollution, help with the expensive cost of gasoline, and maintenance cost of conventional cars. Our project is done at PMU under the Senior Design Project in the College of Engineering. A DC motor is used to drive the vehicle by using pulse width modulation (PWM). The PWM is generated by a microcontroller. The DC motor is powered by a DC battery bank while a solar panel is used to supply power to the auxiliary loads. Moreover, our project consists of a battery monitoring system that indicates the battery levels of the car. We have also implemented the cruise control feature which helps in long drives. The car has an entire lightening system and last but not least a safety system (reversing camera, obstacle avoidance, emergency brake, indicators, a horn).