And who created the design of the capital’s future electric car? Where did you manage to so quickly not only draw three presentation slides, but also create a new platform, build and test prototypes, identify technologies and quickly reach the final, showing images with a typewriter and a grandiose list of suppliers? Nobody developed. There is no car. And there is no one to create it. And nowhere. Despite a very real business and a tangible CEO.
Each car factory is built for a specific model and technology. It does not happen that they first set up workshops and then look for a production order. And the design of the future car is ready just in time for the first peg. In Moscow it is the other way around. The plant is there, the rest is not. And no design agency is making an electric car in an emergency that the mayor of the capital has promised before the end of the year.
By the way, it takes five years to make a new car model from scratch and costs five billion dollars. It is unlikely that the underground workers of the Renault factory created the electric future of the car industry on mysterious nights, starting secret work in 2017, and with the money saved from lunches in the work canteen.
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, which has looked closely at the current state of the Russian economy, believes that “despite the illusions of self-sufficiency and import substitution, domestic production in Russia has completely stopped, unable to recover the lost enterprises, products and personnel; the destruction of the domestic innovation and manufacturing base led to sharp price increases and consumer fear. As a result of the slump in business activity, Russia has lost companies accounting for about 40% of its GDP, leading to the reversal of almost all foreign investment in three decades and the simultaneous flight of capital and population, with a massive exodus of Russia’s economic base.
But this was not mentioned in the presentation, but only pointed to a plethora of factories ready to produce parts exclusively for an electric car. In Russia, the entire industry stopped, without components. But for some reason, the presence of the companies mentioned in the slides has not revived any of the companies. Or are the listed factories painted just like the electric car itself?