The construction of the largest plant for the production of traction batteries, a key element in the design of electric vehicles, has started in Moscow, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
This project sets an ambitious goal: to create a modern plant and a Technical Service Center for electric buses within two years. This event is expected to significantly raise the level of development of the domestic automotive industry and make electric vehicles more accessible to a wide range of consumers. The creation of a Transport Technical Service Center is also intended to bring significant benefits. Increasing the service life of electric buses and other vehicles will expand the network of city routes, providing passengers with more comfortable and safe journeys.
Within the framework of the signed tripartite agreements between Moscow, Rosatom, and KamAZ:
- Moscow authorities undertake to build production facilities and purchase more than 155,000 traction batteries for electric buses, Moskvich cars, and river electric vessels worth 172 billion rubles over 6 years.
- Rosatom assumes responsibility for equipping the plant with modern equipment, as well as ensuring the launch and subsequent production process.
- KamAZ will introduce the plant's products into its personal and urban transport — electric buses, Moskvich electric vehicles, and possibly future Atom electric vehicles, to which KamAZ is also related.
The plant, [judging by the photos, it will be named after Rosatom's subsidiary — Renera editor's note www1.ru], plans to reach its design capacity for the production of lithium-ion batteries by 2026, and the Transport Technical Service Center will be launched by the end of 2025. This is not the first Rosatom gigafactory dedicated to the production of batteries for electric vehicles. A similar enterprise is also under construction in Kaliningrad, deployed on the site of an unrealized nuclear power plant. There, Renera plans to launch a plant with a capacity of 4 GWh per year by 2025 — it is planned to produce traction batteries for 50,000 electric vehicles annually. In May, Rosatom announced the full acquisition of the South Korean energy storage manufacturer Enertech International, which is a supplier to BMW and Samsung, in order to provide the necessary technologies.