Experts spoke about the situation in the market of electric vehicles in the Russian Federation

The forum "IT-Revolution in the auto business - 2022", organized by the agency "AUTOSTAT" on November 22, began its work. Agency director Sergey Tselikov and executive director Sergey Udalov told how things are today in the electric car market in Russia. Despite the fact that the whole Russian car market shows a 60% drop, there is a significant growth in the electric car segment. For 10 months of 2022, its volume was 2.1 thousand new electric engines. This is 34% higher than the same period of the previous year. Used electric vehicles also show the growth (+1% to 7.5 thousand units).

Moreover, active market growth was at the beginning of the year - due to the abolition of import duties on electric cars (from January 1st, 2022), at the end of the previous year they were imported with a significant margin. As for the regional structure of the market, they are more often bought where the infrastructure is established. Thus, over half (56%) of new electric cars are purchased in the Central Federal District. But the least they are bought in the Far East (1%). For used electric vehicles, these figures are 29% and 14%, respectively. If you look at the ratio of the market for hybrids and pure electric engines, then in the first three months of 2022, preference was given in favor of hybrids.

According to Sergei Udalov, this is a European market format. When imports were suspended, the ratio changed slightly. And this is the Chinese market format as the electric cars began to be imported more from China than from Europe. Sergey Udalov believes that the future belongs to electric engines. He also noted that about 500 electric vehicles were imported in October, while the model range became much more diverse. As of July 1st, 2022, there were 23.3 thousand electric vehicles and hybrids in Russia. It shows the high growth rates. More than half of the fleet (52.9%) is owned by the Nissan brand. Tesla is the second one with a figure of 10.4%, Mitsubishi is the third one (9.8%).