KamAZ transitions to unmanned, hydrogen, and electric vehicles

Updates await both existing lines and the entire range of products of the auto concern

Irek Gumerov, Director of Development at KamAZ, announced the auto concern's plans for the next ten years at the International Automobile Scientific Forum (MANF-2023).

According to the Telegram channel "Avtopotok", buyers and auto experts can expect many surprises. This includes not only the mass production launch of the unmanned cabless electric truck "Shuttle".

By 2025, it is planned to launch mass production of "Hercules" electric dump trucks and unmanned "Jupiter" dump trucks.

The new unmanned dump truck "Jupiter 30" will soon be released to quarries. The following models in the family of rigid dump trucks will be even more load-bearing.

By 2025, the large "Atlant" dump truck and the "Chistogor" electric truck will appear in mass production. By 2030, expect a main tractor on fuel cells and a large hydrogen bus.

Among other company projects in partnership with more than a dozen Russian universities are the development of logging equipment and snow and swamp vehicles. Russian automakers have already begun to occupy the niche of the latter. In particular, the unmanned snow and swamp "Kaluzhanin" has already been shown to the world.

In the next ten years, the auto concern will also develop the production of electronics for unmanned vehicles. Domestic autonomous driving systems, the development of technical vision and driver assistance systems have been announced.

Expect new developments in the lines of hydrogen power output systems, fuel storage systems, and fuel cell modules.