Lipetsk Evolute turned out to be an electric car for Ethiopia
- October 28, 2022
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A regular buyer at a car dealership rarely pays attention to the car’s VIN number that the servicer is “pushing” him. But in vain. The AvtoVzglyad portal encountered
A regular buyer at a car dealership rarely pays attention to the car’s VIN number that the servicer is “pushing” him. But in vain. The AvtoVzglyad portal encountered a difficult puzzle by deciphering the VIN of the most common Evolute i-Pro from the salon of one of the dealers of the brand.
The start of the official sale of the Evolute i-Pro in Russia is an excellent opportunity to get acquainted directly with the electric car, for example in the showroom of the official brand dealer. There are not many of them yet, but there are several in Moscow. And the AvtoVzglyad portal went to feel the salable i-Pro with its own hands in its “natural habitat”. That’s at the dealer. We talk about the details of this event in another article.
But what our wide-eyed correspondent immediately noticed was the VIN number on the plate under the windshield of the car in the showroom. The unique alphanumeric combination assigned to an electric vehicle begins with the letter “E”. This is especially unusual because all cars produced in Russia, and the Evolute assembled at a plant near Lipetsk, must have a chassis number starting with “X”.
Yes, we know the Evolute i-Pro is just another Chinese electric car with a ‘Russian brand’ badge on it. But the fact is that all cars produced in Chinese factories have a VIN that starts with “L”. The international vehicle marking system is exactly the same. And according to her, the VIN number that starts with “E” indicates that the vehicle was produced in…Ethiopia! It turns out that the original Russian-Chinese Evolute i-Pro is actually the brainchild of a monster of the Ethiopian car industry?
As far as we know, the automotive industry in this African country is represented only by a small company Bazra Motors, which assembles everything on hand from imported car kits – from Toyota and Kia to UAZ. For example, the Ethiopian VIN of the Lipetsk Evolute i-Pro may indicate that Dongfeng, which supplies car kits for its Aeolus E70 to the Russian Federation, originally planned to promote the car in the African market before the latter was “baptized”. in the Evolution i-Pro.
That is, it turns out that the car was intended for a warm climate. It is possible that for some reason it was not possible to sell it to Africa. But then came a project with Motorinvest, so what? In this case, it is completely unknown how the electric car will behave in real life in icy and muddy Russian conditions.
But even if this version is incorrect, the “Ethiopian” VIN number of the Evolute i-Pro indicates that, at least in terms of bureaucratic and legality, something is not quite clean with the “first serial Russian electric car”. Which, for example, could lead to problems with the supply of spare parts or the maintenance of these “electric trains” by our Chinese friends. Then it remains only to sympathize with the future proud owners of the Lipetsk (or is it still the Ethiopian?) “Evolyuts” …
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The start of the official sale of the Evolute i-Pro in Russia is an excellent opportunity to get acquainted directly with the electric car, for example in the showroom of the official brand dealer. There are not many of them yet, but there are several in Moscow. And the AvtoVzglyad portal went to feel the salable i-Pro with its own hands in its “natural habitat”. That’s at the dealer. We talk about the details of this event in another article.
But what our wide-eyed correspondent immediately noticed was the VIN number on the plate under the windshield of the car in the showroom. The unique alphanumeric combination assigned to an electric vehicle begins with the letter “E”. This is especially unusual because all cars produced in Russia, and the Evolute assembled at a plant near Lipetsk, must have a chassis number starting with “X”.
Yes, we know the Evolute i-Pro is just another Chinese electric car with a ‘Russian brand’ badge on it. But the fact is that all cars produced in Chinese factories have a VIN that starts with “L”. The international vehicle marking system is exactly the same. And according to her, the VIN number that starts with “E” indicates that the vehicle was produced in…Ethiopia! It turns out that the original Russian-Chinese Evolute i-Pro is actually the brainchild of a monster of the Ethiopian car industry?
As far as we know, the automotive industry in this African country is represented only by a small company Bazra Motors, which assembles everything on hand from imported car kits – from Toyota and Kia to UAZ. For example, the Ethiopian VIN of the Lipetsk Evolute i-Pro may indicate that Dongfeng, which supplies car kits for its Aeolus E70 to the Russian Federation, originally planned to promote the car in the African market before the latter was “baptized”. in the Evolution i-Pro.
That is, it turns out that the car was intended for a warm climate. It is possible that for some reason it was not possible to sell it to Africa. But then came a project with Motorinvest, so what? In this case, it is completely unknown how the electric car will behave in real life in icy and muddy Russian conditions.
But even if this version is incorrect, the “Ethiopian” VIN number of the Evolute i-Pro indicates that, at least in terms of bureaucratic and legality, something is not quite clean with the “first serial Russian electric car”. Which, for example, could lead to problems with the supply of spare parts or the maintenance of these “electric trains” by our Chinese friends. Then it remains only to sympathize with the future proud owners of the Lipetsk (or is it still the Ethiopian?) “Evolyuts” …
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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