Rosatom to open the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles in Moscow

An assembly plant for lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles will be launched in Moscow. Renera company (part of Rosatom fuel company - TVEL) will be the production organizer. "In order to provide battery supplies to manufacturers, we will launch an assembly plant in Moscow for engineering and production of modules, packs and energy storage systems with a capacity of 150 MWh* per year," said Alexander Kamashev, CEO of the company.

We can assume that the idea of such a plant in the capital is associated both with the presence of electric buses in the Moscow parc and the potential production of electric vehicles at Moskvich plant. The plant has the task to start production of components for such vehicles as fast as possible, and with high localization level. We should remind that in March 2022, Rosatom and AVTOTOR plant in Kaliningrad signed an agreement about the development of production and the uptake of electric vehicles in Kaliningrad region.

Renera company is also mentioned there under the project of a full-scale plant for the production of lithium-ion cells and accumulator batteries with a total capacity of manufactured devices of about 4 GWh per year, which is planned to be launched in Kaliningrad in 2025.