By 2025, the Moskvich plant plans to start the production of electric cars on its own platform. reported Representatives of the capital enterprise on the Telegram channel.
The Moskvich plant localized the ERA-GLONASS block, technical fluids and various accessories for cars. The plant said that work is currently underway to initiate small-scale assembly in two directions: localizing the welding and painting processes.
By 2024, it is planned to start small-scale auto assembly by welding and painting, as well as attracting a larger pool of Russian automotive components suppliers. According to the report, the Moscow factory will produce electric vehicles on its own universal platform in 2025 using main components localized in Russia.
It happened earlier this week knownthat the main conveyor is operated at the Moskvich plant, which more than doubles the productivity of the assembly shop. Now the cars are mounted on a 480 meter long fully automatic line.
The Moskvich factory plans to produce 50 thousand cars this year, 8-10 thousand of which will be electric motors. Now the company’s lineup includes the Moskvich 3 crossover last week seen New equipment and Moskvich 3e electric car for 2.25 million rubles. Serial production of Moskvich 6 cars is scheduled to begin in July-August 2023, said Dmitry Pronin, General Director of the Moskvich Automobile Plant.