Belarus to create home-made electric vehicle by 2025 – Lukashenko
<p> MINSK, Jul 10 - PrimePress. An electric vehicle designed and manufactured in Belarus will emerge by 2025. </p> <p> </p> <p> Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a statement to this effect as he visited ZAO Atlant on July 10, the president’s press-service said in a statement. </p> <p> </p> <p> “I am convinced that in this five-year plan [the next five-year plan, 2021-2025] we will make a good electric vehicle of our own. Besides, we are going to make our own electric vehicles at Geely Company premises together with China. It is already a reality,” said Lukashenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> The head of state noted that imported batteries are the main problem of Belarusian electric vehicles for now. “But our specialists have even come up with new principles for making these batteries, which the world has yet to discover,” said Lukashenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, BelGee CEO Gennady Svidersky said in Mar 2020 that BelGee could consider the manufacture of electric vehicles in Belarus provided that 5,000 to 10,000 cars will be sold locally per year. </p> <p> </p> <p> The Belarus-China Joint Venture BelGee, which manufactures passenger cars under the BelGee brand, launched a completely knocked-down car assembly plant (CKD assembly) in Borisov (a town in Minsk Oblast, 70km from Minsk City) in Nov 2017. The car plant occupies an area of 118 ha, and has the capacity to make 60,000 cars per year. The new BelGee plant can potentially employ 1,300 workers when it starts operating at full capacity. The total value of the project is around €400 million, which was partially covered with China’s $158.7m credit. The company assembles the Geely Atlas, Emgrand X7 New and Coolray crossovers and the Geely Emgrand 7 New sedan. End </p>
2020-07-11
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Belarus to create home-made electric vehicle by 2025 – Lukashenko
MINSK, Jul 10 - PrimePress. An electric vehicle designed and manufactured in Belarus will emerge by 2025.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a statement to this effect as he visited ZAO Atlant on July 10, the president’s press-service said in a statement.
“I am convinced that in this five-year plan [the next five-year plan, 2021-2025] we will make a good electric vehicle of our own. Besides, we are going to make our own electric vehicles at Geely Company premises together with China. It is already a reality,” said Lukashenko.
The head of state noted that imported batteries are the main problem of Belarusian electric vehicles for now. “But our specialists have even come up with new principles for making these batteries, which the world has yet to discover,” said Lukashenko.
As previously reported, BelGee CEO Gennady Svidersky said in Mar 2020 that BelGee could consider the manufacture of electric vehicles in Belarus provided that 5,000 to 10,000 cars will be sold locally per year.
The Belarus-China Joint Venture BelGee, which manufactures passenger cars under the BelGee brand, launched a completely knocked-down car assembly plant (CKD assembly) in Borisov (a town in Minsk Oblast, 70km from Minsk City) in Nov 2017. The car plant occupies an area of 118 ha, and has the capacity to make 60,000 cars per year. The new BelGee plant can potentially employ 1,300 workers when it starts operating at full capacity. The total value of the project is around €400 million, which was partially covered with China’s $158.7m credit. The company assembles the Geely Atlas, Emgrand X7 New and Coolray crossovers and the Geely Emgrand 7 New sedan. End