The Kama electric car, a project of KamAZ CEO Sergey Kogogin and businessman Ruben Vardanyan, is considered the basis of Moskvich electric cars. The newspaper reports vedomosti with reference to sources.
According to one of the interlocutors of the publication, the production of “Moskvich” will begin in 2024. However, according to another source, there is no final decision on this issue yet.
The newspaper also reported that the first Moskvich electric vehicles will most likely be produced from Chinese toolkits. The release of the first cars is scheduled for 2022. In the first phase, 600 cars, 200 of which are electric, are planned by the end of the year. The series will feature four crossovers and an electric car.
Former Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin declarationThat KamAZ will become the main technological partner of the revived Moscow Automobile Plant (“Moskvich”). At the same time, it is planned to start the production of internal combustion engine cars within the framework of the first phase. It is possible that in the future the company will master the assembly of electric vehicles.