The head of the Avtotor holding company, Vladimir Shcherbakov, spoke about his company’s plans to start the process of converting normal cars with internal combustion engines into electric trains.
– We have proposed to the government (and it supports us) to make 150,000 electric motors of different sizes and to make controllers for the entire industry. We will produce electrical kits to replace the old internal combustion engine together with the gearbox with a new electrical one for machines already in use,” he said.
In Russia, there are already several companies at the same time that want to make the broad masses of the population happy with electric transport. Suffice it to recall the Lipetsk “Evolute”, the announcements of the release of electric “Moskvich”, as well as a motley collection of purebred Chinese “electric trains”, the announcements of the sale of which are filled with specialized sites. We should not forget KAMAZ’s ambitions in the field of electric passenger transport.
Yes, and Avtotor itself would completely switch to the production of exclusively electric vehicles by 2024. But apparently, about a month ago, as a first step in this direction, he began assembling the Kaiyi E5 gasoline sedan – “no” Chery Arrizo 7.