«Inenergy» with the participation of «Gazprombank» and the company «Transport of the Future» plans to build the first battery factory for drones in Russia. The planned investment volume is 25 billion rubles.
The 750 MW•h enterprise will appear in Dolgoprudny by 2025 and will not only produce batteries and low-power batteries (up to 1 kW•h) for portable equipment and drones, but also large ones, with a capacity of more than 100 kW•h, for electric transport and energy storage. The “Transport of the Future” will be the anchor buyer: batteries will be needed for production of 800 agrodrones, 50 heavy unmanned vehicles weighing 700 kg and several hundred other UAVs.
«Inenergy» expects that in the first couple of years, domestic batteries will be approximately 30% more expensive than Chinese ones, and they plan to compensate for this difference with state support.