The climb to Jebel Shams asks more of a battery's cooling than anything on flat ground does, and the descent runs almost entirely on regeneration. That is easier on the brakes than it sounds — so much easier that the discs corrode from disuse rather than wear out, which is a fault we look for here specifically.
The Geely is quietly one of the more common Chinese badges on Omani plates, and the work it needs here is hybrid and full-electric drivetrains, plus charging-control diagnostics. Both get done in one place, which for an electric car matters more than it does for an engine: the diagnostic access is most of the job. Oman is not a short country. Salalah is close to a thousand kilometres from Muscat, and the charging between them thins out fast once you are past Nizwa. An electric car here has to be planned around in a way it simply does not in Doha or Dubai.
