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Charging for electric vehicles in Moscow

Main article: Charging for electric vehicles in Moscow (EZS)

2022

A cluster for the development of electric vehicles has been created in Moscow

to the capital In created a single platform for the development of projects in the field. Electric Car Building This was TAdviser reported on December 12, 2022 at. Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow Read more. here

Moscow Polytechnic will create an engineering school for the development and testing of electric vehicles

On May 6, 2022, the Moscow Polytechnic University announced that it would take part in the competition of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for the creation of advanced engineering schools. The university plans to launch a training design bureau, where they will develop and create pilot models, as well as test electric vehicles. Read more here.

A platform was launched in Moscow to turn any light car into an electric car. Price

At the end of April 2022, Moscow launched the first platform for the Russian market to turn an ordinary car into an electric one. This is a project of Edison Technologies, a company engaged in the production of fast charging stations for electric cars. Read more here.

The plant "Electric vehicles Manufacturing Ru" in the SEZ "Technopolice Moscow" announced the recruitment of personnel

The plant for the production of electric cargo vehicles, which will be located in the SEZ "Technopolice Moscow," announced the recruitment of personnel, this became known on March 11, 2022 from the words of the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy, which is part of the complex of economic policy and property and land relations of the capital, Alexander Prokhorov. Read more here.

2021

Moskvich launches production of electric vehicles

The assembly of the first cars at the capital's plant Muscovite"" will begin next week (November 21-27, 2022). This was announced by the mayor. Moscow Sergei Sobyanin More. here

Liksutov: about 2 thousand electric vehicles are in operation in Moscow

By July 2021, about 2 thousand electric vehicles are in operation in Moscow. Maxim Liksutov, deputy mayor of the city for transport, said this in an interview with Reuters.

According to him, every year in Moscow there are 10-15% more electric cars than were used at the end of the previous year. For them, the capital needs to develop the infrastructure of charging stations, and work in this direction is already underway - by 2023 the number of charging stations in the capital should increase to 600, the city plans to install up to 200 such stations a year from 2021, Liksutov said.

Maxim Liksutov: about 2 thousand electric vehicles are in operation in Moscow

Liksutov says that Moscow will follow the international example, according to which cities should install more charging infrastructure than is necessary at the first stage, to stimulate demand in the future. The city will also simplify the process of approving privately installed charging stations.

The first steps should be taken by the city authorities, - said the head of the Moscow Department of Transport.

According to the energy company RusHydro, which the agency cites, out of 45 million cars in Russia, at the beginning of 2021 only 11 thousand were electric, and they were served by 1000 charging stations.

The European Business Association predicts that at least 1000 electric cars will be sold in Russia in 2021. The market is expected to double annually in the future.

VTB Capital analyst Vladimir Bespalov, in a conversation with Vedomosti, noted that the zero duty on the import of electric vehicles expiring at the end of 2021, as well as the shortage of new cars with an internal combustion engine on the market, especially in the premium segment, had an impact on market growth in Russia.

Assuming that the zero duty will not be extended, people want to buy an electric car before the imminent rise in price, agrees Kirill Zhanaidarov, head of the transport department of the Skolkovo Foundation.[1][2]

2019: Transport tax on electric vehicles canceled in Moscow

On November 20, 2019, the Moscow City Duma approved the exemption of electric vehicles from transport tax. This measure is designed to stimulate the expansion of the use of environmentally friendly vehicles.

Owners of electric cars in the Russian capital will be able not to pay transport tax until December 31, 2024. The benefit will not apply to hybrid vehicles in which an electric motor and a different type of engine are installed at the same time.

Moscow City Duma approved the exemption of electric vehicles from transport tax for five years

The "luxury tax" used for cars worth over 3 million rubles will not apply to electric vehicles either. Owners of electric cars in Moscow are allowed to use paid city parking lots free of charge.

           The Russian government proposed to abolish the transport tax for owners of electric vehicles not only in the capital, but throughout Russia, as well as in the EAEU space in November 2018. Other incentive initiatives include   the Skolkovo idea fund to give electric vehicles the right to free travel on toll highways and dedicated lanes for public transport in cities.

And on November 21, 2019, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Property and Land Relations Vasily Vlasov (LDPR) proposed allowing electric vehicles to move along public transport lanes.

The Center for Traffic Management (DPC) sharply opposed the initiative to put electric cars on the allocated lanes. The organization explained this by the fact that personal transport should not interfere with urban transport.

By mid-2019, there are about 4,600 electric vehicles in Russia. Most of them (80%) are Nissan Leaf. The top three most popular electric cars also included Mitsubishi I-MIEV and Tesla models. A total of 6.5 million cars were registered in Moscow.^[3]

2017: Mosgortrans buys the first 300 electric buses

At the end of 2017, the authorities Moscow represented by the State Unitary Enterprise "" Mosgortrans officially relied on the development of electric public: transport a tender was announced for the supply of 300 electric buses (with service for 15 years) and charging systems for them. According to the deputy mayor for transport, Maxim Liksutov a total of three auctions of 100 cars will take place (with a starting price of 10.5 billion rubles each). Manufacturers are also required to supply 98 ultra-fast charging stations. And this is just the beginning: it is planned to purchase 300 cars a year annually, and from 2021 Moscow only electric buses will begin to be purchased. The capital is already refusing traditional trolleybuses: in the city center they are removed from the routes^[4]

The Ministry of Industry and Trade supported the idea of ​ ​ Moscow and will continue to subsidize manufacturers of electric transport (in 2018, 1.5 billion rubles were allocated for this, in 2017 - 900 million rubles). According to the ministry, the development of the segment is provided for in the draft strategy of the automotive industry until 2025 (still not adopted). A "national consortium" for electric transport has been created, it includes KamAZ, Sollers and FSUE NAMI.

The Ministry of Transport adds that they have developed a draft strategy for the development of automobile and urban electric transport until 2030, it was discussed with specialized associations and was generally approved by the industry coordination council at the end of 2016. But, the ministry clarifies, the regions "themselves determine the directions of development of various types of passenger transport." In Tula, for example, some trolleybuses already have a long autonomous travel, they travel more than 100 km a day in electric bus mode. There are electric buses in Novosibirsk, other regions also express interest in them, the Ministry of Transport notes.

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