Exotic electric cars from China are becoming increasingly popular on the Russian market. More than 10 new Chinese brands appeared in the country last year. Parallel imports of these cars outsell officially supplied brands. However, questions arise about the repair and spare parts of such “exotic” cars, as well as the possibility of deregistering an electric vehicle. The newspaper reports this “News”by doing appropriate research.
Electric vehicle sales are growing rapidly, according to analytics agency Autostat. 1,757 new electric vehicles were sold in September; This figure is eight times higher than in September last year. In the nine months of this year, new electric vehicle sales increased fivefold, reaching 8,752 units.
Especially the Zeekr brand, owned by Geely, stands out. In September alone, 648 cars of this brand were sold; This figure is 324 times more than the previous year. Zeekr became the leader in its segment and entered the top 25 in the Russian automobile market for the first time. But cars of this brand are not cheap. For example, the most popular model, the 001 liftback, costs 8.8 million rubles, 009 minivan – 14 million rubles, and X crossover – 6 million rubles. Some smaller players in the market offer the same models at lower prices.
According to this year’s nine-month results, Zeekr ranks third in sales (1,378 cars). The leader is Volkswagen, which is ahead of both the Russian electric cars Evolute (1410) and the officially presented Voyah (513). Tesla is slowly losing ground to Chinese brands and ranks fourth with 1,006 vehicles sold.
Autostat Director Sergei Tselikov believes that this year we could see sales of more than 2,000 electric vehicles per month in Russia and exceed the 10 thousand cars per year mark.
Anatoly Kurushin, founder of Neo Cars, warned at the forum “CarX: revolution in the automobile business” about possible risks associated with parallel imports of cars.
One of these risks is “grey” plans where import duties are underestimated. According to Kurushin, in Kyrgyzstan the underestimation of taxes on electric vehicles is at least 40%, and on vehicles with internal combustion engines it is up to 80%. In Kazakhstan, this figure is 40%, and in Belarus it is up to 50%. Such transactions may be considered fictitious, which may lead to cancellation of PTS.
Another problem is the maintenance and repair of cars imported through parallel imports. Spare parts for some models are quite expensive. Damage resulting from this may result in losses to the dealer or insurance company that sold such a vehicle.
In addition, many electric cars from China do not have a Russified version, and some of their services may not work properly in Russia.
It was previously known which cars were will stop supply To Russia after August 1.