The Kaliningrad automobile plant Avtotor plans to start the production of small trucks and light commercial vehicles. This was announced by Governor Anton Alikhanov, transmits TASS.
“Everyone has probably heard that Avtotor has restarted and will increase production. In January, they launched a line for the production of Chinese Kaiyi cars. In the future, projects for the production of light commercial vehicles and small trucks, including electric vehicles,” said.
The governor did not specify under which brands commercial vehicle production is planned to start. According to him, Avtotor has already invested more than 2 billion rubles in a production facility for the assembly of electric vehicles of its own production.
Alikhanov at the end of last year saidThat Avtotor has made agreements with three Chinese companies. Since then, only one of them has been officially announced – at the end of January, Avtotor to start Production of Kaiyi branded passenger cars. For the production of the Kaiyi E5 sedan, the company, which had previously rolled off the assembly line of BMW, Kia and Hyundai, invested more than 100 million rubles in the modernization of the production line.