Yandex purchased 2 thousand electric vehicles Moskvich for taxis and car sharing

2023

Yandex purchased 2 thousand electric vehicles Moskvich for taxis and car sharing

Yandex"" purchased another 2 thousand electric vehicles "" Muscovite for taxis and car sharing. The mayor Moscow Sergei Sobyanin announced this on April 4, 2023.

It is important that Moskvich is already participating in the development of urban passenger transport. Contracts with Yandex.Taxi with a total capacity of five thousand cars were concluded, of which two thousand electric vehicles. This is one of the largest contracts in the world for deliveries for taxis and car sharing. Improving the ecology of the city, and a good example for others. I hope this car will reliably serve Muscovites, guests of the capital, - said the mayor of the capital during a visit to the Moskvich plant.

Moskvich car plant will supply two thousand electric vehicles Moskvich-3e for taxi companies

The Moskvich car plant will supply two thousand electric vehicles Muscovite-3e"" for taxi companies - Yandex.Taxi partners. The company signed a corresponding agreement with LLC "Fleet." According to the general director of the company "Fleet," Anton Sapozhkov, in recent years it has become more difficult for taxi companies to ensure the flow of cars in taxis. In order to solve this problem, Yandex has created a new division - Yandex.Flot. Its task is to ensure the influx of cars into taxis and car sharing. The press service of the mayor's office clarified that the first 50 cars replenished the Yandex.Taxi fleet in April.

Sergei Sobyanin on April 4, 2023 noted that Moskvich continues to develop, the labor collective of the plant has been preserved. As Sobyanin specified, last year only 600 cars were produced, "this year the program is already for 50 thousand, 10 thousand of them are electric vehicles."

In 2024, we set ourselves the task of producing 100 thousand, but the most important thing is that localization begins this year, "he said.[1]

Yandex purchased 3 thousand. "Muscovites" for taxi and car sharing

Yandex has agreed with the Moskvich automobile plant to supply the company with cars of the same name for car sharing and taxi services. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote about this on February 14, 2023 in his Telegram channel.

We will supply 3000 Moskvich 3 cars for taxis and car sharing throughout the country in the near future. The Moskvich plant and the Yandex group of companies signed an agreement with a delivery schedule for 2023, Sobyanin said.

New Moskvich in Yandex.Taxi colors

In total, in 2023, Moskvich intends to produce 50,000 cars, including 10,000 electric cars, Sobyanin said. The plant also has its own dealer network - 52 centers in 23 cities of Russia, the mayor of the capital added.

The first deliveries of Muscovites are scheduled for spring, the Yandex Taxi press service told TASS. According to Auto.ru, Muscovites with electric motors are not yet included in the deal with Yandex. "Their use is only being discussed by the parties so far," the publication pointed out.

Moskvich clarifies that thanks to the restart of production, taxi and car sharing services will be able to quickly update the fleet and maintain a high level of their services - since only for the Moscow market they need from 30 thousand to 40 thousand new cars a year.

In July 2022, Yandex asked AvtoVAZ to supply cars for leasing companies due to a "significant shortage of cars and spare parts." At the same time, Vedomosti was told that the company was discussing the supply of electric vehicles of the Russian Evolute assembly. In October, Yandex Go agreed with AvtoVAZ, Chinese Haval, Chery and Geely on discounts on 10 thousand cars for taxi companies, Vedomosti found out.

The Moskvich 3 urban crossover is the first model to come off the assembly line of the revived production of the Moskvich plant. The machine is presented in five colors: white, black, red, gray and blue. Its cost starts at 1.97 million rubles.^[2]

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