The car will be produced at the Motorinvest plant in Lipetsk. Changan cars used to be assembled here, but now the conveyor belt will mainly be occupied by Evolute i-Joy crossovers.
Yury Timkin, an expert at Za Rulem, the oldest and most authoritative automotive publication in Russia, shared details about the new Russian car.
This electric car is comparable in size to: Hyundai Crete – the length is 4385 mm. But due to the lack of an internal combustion engine, gearbox and exhaust system, the interior and trunk of the car are noticeably more spacious.
If you compare the car with the Chinese Dongfeng E3 crossover, you immediately see that this is it. Therefore, with similar characteristics, the ground clearance of the Evolute i-Joy is 180 mm and the drive is front only.
A 53 kWh lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide (Li-NMC) traction battery is installed under the floor, which powers a 176 hp (225 Nm) electric motor.
As a result, the declared acceleration to 100 km / h is 8.9 s, the maximum speed is 160 km / h and the driving range is 405 km.