BYD electric cars may appear in Russia in 2023

The Chinese BYD Auto Concert can enter the Russian market again in 2023, but now exclusively with a line of electric vehicles. The Belarusian Company SGP intends to import cars to Russia, which has received permission to sell BYD electric cars throughout the CIS.

As Artem Lovchev, General Manager of SGP, informed Vedomosti newspaper, the quota for Russia and the CIS is up to 150 thousand electric cars in 2023, all of them will be imported from China. According to him, the company submitted documents to Rosstandart for VTA for three BYD models: sedan Qin Plus, Dolphin hatchback and Song Plus crossover. The receipt of certificates is expected at the end of 2022, and the next year SGP plans to apply for VTA for the HANG premium sedan and Tang crossover.

"Car manufacturers from China have very ambitious plans for the production of electric vehicles, we can say with confidence that in a short time the first electric cars of Chinese distributors will come to our market. It is possible that the demand for them will be high," says Renat Tyukteev, the director of Avilon Mercedes-Benz.

The head of Rolf Electro project, Alexander Kandinov, also believes that our country is very attractive to Chinese automakers. According to him, in China, about 300 models of electric vehicles, and many of them can already be compared in the performance characteristics and quality with recognized industry leaders, while being significantly cheaper.