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MAYS says fifty cars delivered as it signs a $17.9m Uzbekistan order

The 750-vehicle agreement was signed in Tashkent in front of Oman's ambassador. The company still will not name the Uzbek partner.

Omani electric vehicle maker MAYS said in August that it had delivered more than fifty cars to buyers including government bodies and private companies, and set out a pipeline of about 4,000 vehicles for export.

Muscat Daily reported the figure on 8 August in an interview with co-founder Haider bin Adnan al-Zaabi. The company put 1,300 of the pipeline in North Africa and said it was at different stages of entering seven markets. It intends to work with manufacturing partners abroad and keep operations in Oman.

Six weeks later, on 30 September, the company signed an agreement worth $17.9 million to supply 750 vehicles to Uzbekistan. The signing took place at the Omani embassy in Tashkent in the presence of Oman's ambassador there, Wafa al-Busaidi, and was reported by Oman Observer. The agreement covers localisation, training and after-sales work. MAYS did not name its Uzbek partner or the model to be supplied, and the Observer reported that omission.

The Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises Development was present at the signing, according to Al Shabiba.

Both events sit on a long record. The company announced an investment agreement with the Oman Technology Fund at the Oman pavilion at Expo 2020 in October 2021, launched its first car in February 2022 at Al Bustan Palace, moved to an SUV with the Alive, and delivered its first ten units in February 2025.

Where this record is held

The two events above are not held by one outlet. Muscat Daily carried the delivery figure in its own interview; Oman Observer carried the Uzbek signing from the embassy in Tashkent; Al Shabiba and Zawya carried the separate details. This page adds no new reporting on either. It is a joining page — the two halves six weeks apart on one dated record — and every figure on it can be read in full in the piece named against it.

That joining is the whole of what this desk contributes, so it is worth being plain about what it does and does not settle. It settles the sequence: the company's delivery total is August, the order is September, and the order is not a corroboration of the total. It does not settle either number. Neither has been counted by anyone outside MAYS.

Against the record, an earlier pair of launch numbers is also visible. The company launched on 4.9 s and 280 km/h in February 2022 and the launch reports printed both; the site it sells from today says about 7 s and 170+ km/h. That is a gap of more than 100 km/h held for four years without a correction published in the press. A reader taking the 2022 pieces at face value is working from a specification the manufacturer no longer claims.

What would move any of this forward is small and cheap: a delivery list with registration numbers, the name of the Uzbek partner, and an outlet in Tashkent carrying the deal from its own side. Until one of those exists, a page like this one can only arrange the record. It cannot add to it.

Caveats a reader should carry

The delivery totals and the export pipeline come from the company and were published inside an interview; no independent count exists. The Uzbek deal was announced by the founder on social media before the Observer reported it, and no Uzbek outlet has been found covering it. Launch prices and ranges have moved since 2022 — the launch reports gave 4.9 s and 280 km/h, the current site gives about 7 s and 170+ km/h — and the 2022 reports repeated the old figures without testing.

MAYS sells through drivemays.com, which currently lists three trims of the Alive from RO 10,900. Two of the manufacturer's other domains — maysmotors.com and mays.om — do not serve the site.

More on this record: what the car is now sold on, and on how the 4,000 splits.