General Director of KAMAZ PTC Sergey Kogogin and Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin signed an agreement on cooperation to develop cars and produce Russian electric vehicles.
The agreement was signed yesterday, on July 6, at Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvich, a former Renauilt plant. The document defines the parties’ intentions to build Russian passenger electric cars at the premises of Moskvich and bring them to market as soon as possible. KAMAZ will act as a technological partner of the project. The parties have already developed a road map to create a Russian unified vehicle platform that will be base for a line of domestically made passenger vehicles.
“In view of present-day global auto industry tendencies, during the latest years, KAMAZ has been developing electric cars. We have been cooperating with Moscow for a long time. Our business partnership with Moscow’s Government makes us confident in our new joint project. Besides, KAMAZ is ready to engage in this area also thanks to the key fact that Moskvich Plant has high-skilled experts,” said General Director of KAMAZ PTC Sergey Kogogin.
About 600 cars, including 200 electrically driven ones, are to be produced until the end of 2022. In 2023, the enterprise will make at least 50 thousand vehicles, and 100 thousand in 2024. Electric cars of them will amount to 10 and 20 thousand units, respectively. The full manufacturing cycle with welding and body painting is scheduled for 2024.
There will be five models bearing a Moskvich logo: four crossovers and one sedan.