Lada Vesta

Main article: Automotive market of Russia

2024

Started production of cars with Russian stabilization systems, in which 622 million rubles were invested

In August 2024, AvtoVAZ launched the production of Lada Vesta cars equipped with the Russian ESC stability stabilization system.

The ESC system is a complex comprising Anti-Lock System (ABS), Brake Force Distribution (EBD), Turn Stabilisation (CSC), Yaw Control (AYC), Traction Control System (TCS), Hydraulic Brake Assist (HBA), Automatic Lift and Drop Hold (HAS), and Emergency Braking Alarm (AHW) actuation.

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The project is financed by a concessional loan of 622 million rubles provided by the Industrial Development Fund (FRP) to Itelma, the manufacturer of ABS and ESP systems. The loan was allocated in early August 2024 at a rate of 5% per annum.

The funds are planned to be directed to the purchase of an assembly line, machine tools, measuring and bench equipment, as well as equipment. This will allow Itelma to increase the level of localization of production from the current 25% to 55%. As of August 2024, the systems are 75% composed of Chinese components.

The development and implementation of the Russian ESC system is part of AvtoVAZ's strategy to return to LADA cars options temporarily lost due to increased sanctions pressure. ESC tests for LADA Vesta were carried out for two years in various climatic conditions and on a variety of road surfaces.

The design capacity of the Itelma conveyor is 1.2 million units per year. The total investment in the ABS and ESP systems production project is estimated at about ₽1 billion. Serial production of ABS at the company's plant in Kostroma began in the summer of 2023, and ESP production began in December 2023.^[1]

Autopilot Testing on Public Roads

The Central Research Institute of Cars and Automobile Engines (NAMI) has begun road tests of Lada Vesta with autopilot. Denis Endachev, Executive Director for Information and Intellectual Systems of FSUE NAMI, spoke about this in early April 2024.

Unmanned technologies in the automotive industry are not only one of the key trends, but also an objective reality... At the moment, a Lada Vesta car is used to test unmanned technologies on public roads and at a special test site, he said in a conversation with TASS (the article was released on April 3, 2024).

source = FSUE NAMI

According to Endachev, for many years the institute has been involved in the development and testing of such technologies. The system shows stability in work, successfully performing movement in unmanned mode in the city stream, he said. Autopilots will help reduce the cost of transporting passengers in a taxi and reduce the cost of cargo transportation, Denis Endachev is sure.

Work on the unmanned version of Lada Vesta in NAMI began back in 2021. Then the institute showed a prototype that could move along a pre-planned route, assessing the trajectories of other machines. Then the machine began to be used in a Moscow hospital. But the autopilot was developed not by NAMI, but by MosTransProekt together with MADI engineers.

Three optical laser rangefinders (lidars), as well as a complex of video cameras and radars, are responsible for navigation in space in Vesta with an autopilot. The decision on maneuvers is made by the electronics on their own, completely controlling the steering wheel and pedals. The machine can move a pre-programmed route, following other moving and static objects.^[2]

2023: Mass production of chassis parts for Lada Vesta launched in Tatarstan for 1 billion rubles

The Joshkunoz Alabuga company launched mass production of chassis parts for AvtoVAZ in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. Total investments exceeded 1 billion rubles, of which 500 million rubles were provided by the Federal Industrial Development Fund (FRP) in the form of a preferential loan under the Component Products program. This was announced at the end of August 2023. Read more here.

2022: Difficulties with release due to stopping the supply of components against the background of Russia's special operation in Ukraine

2021: Production of machines without a radio because of a shortage of parts

At the end of June 2021, it became known that AvtoVAZ began to produce cars without a radio recorder in the kit. The reason is the lack of parts.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to the car dealer of the Transtehservice brand and two large AvtoVAZ sellers, the release of Lada Vesta, Xray and Largus in the comfort light configuration has started - without a radio recorder and a multi-ruble, where there is a cruise control function and a multimedia system.

AvtoVAZ began to produce cars without a radio because of a shortage of parts

According to dealers, cars without such a configuration cost 10-13 thousand rubles cheaper, but those cars where there is a radio recorder and a multi-rule are not available and you need to wait two months without a guarantee of price preservation.

Vyacheslav Zubarev, general director and founder of Transtehservice, told the newspaper that cars without a radio recorder and a multi-wheel are in demand, these are not the most necessary options, and delivery times are significant precisely because of rising prices. So, from July 1, 2021, the entire lineup will rise in price by 15,000-25,000 rubles, which dealers have already been notified of.

We discuss these changes [sales of a car without a radio recorder and a multi-ruble] with customers who have already made an advance payment, "said Vyacheslav Zubarev.

According to him, buyers either agree to get a car on time, but without some options, or are waiting for new deliveries, but in full equipment.

The press service of AvtoVAZ did not comment on the message at the request of Vedomosti. A representative of one of the dealers said that buyers have no choice, and they install a multimedia system with an additional payment of 50 thousand rubles. in the cabin. In his opinion, all comfort-light vehicles will be sold within a month of delivery.

On June 2 and 3, 2021, AvtoVAZ stopped the production of cars due to a lack of components. Kommersant reported that AvtoVAZ suspended production due to problems with the supply of components of Bosch, which supplies electronics to the company.^[3]

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