Yesterday evening in Moscow, an important event for the Russian auto industry took place: the prototype of the domestic electric car “Atom” was presented. This is not yet a production car, but it is much closer to the “serial” version. The car can even move on its own.

According to Maxim Kadakov, editor-in-chief of “Za rulom”, about 500 specialists were involved in the project to create the Russian “Atom”, 200 of them were engineers. The offices are located in Russia and China, and the headquarters is in Naberezhnye Chelny (this is not surprising, since KAMAZ is behind the creation of the Atom). The creators believe that they can start production of the "Atom" in 2025, and the projected production volume looks very ambitious - 200 thousand cars per year! For comparison, AvtoVAZ produced about the same number for all of 2022.

The creators of the electric vehicle have provided refined technical specifications of the car. And the most interesting thing is that the Atom has a rear-wheel drive! This is a plus for control, but the passability suffers. However, the company is working on an all-wheel drive version.

The Atom will receive a traction battery of domestic production - it is being developed by one of the structures of Rosatom. The expected reserve is 500 km. The rear-wheel drive version will accelerate to 100 km/h in 7 seconds, the all-wheel drive version will obviously be more dynamic. The dimensions of the car are 3995 x 1780 x 1615 mm.

Swing doors and the lack of a central pillar make the car extremely convenient for entry/exit, but whether this feature will be retained in the series version is unclear, as the central pillar significantly increases the rigidity of the body. Also in the series version they can refuse from the sliding door handles, and the door hinges in appearance and construction will be much closer to traditional ones.