Avtotor will release its own electric car in early 2024

Kaliningrad Avtotor plant is going to start industrial production of a new electric vehicle of its own design in the first quarter of 2024. This was reported to Gazeta.Ru in the press service of Avtotor, by adding that the assembly of the "pilot" lot is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023. The platform underlying the car is its own development, the intellectual rights to it belong to Avtotor, the company specified. Avtotor's long-term plans include the production of a wide range of electric vehicles targeted at various market segments.

As Valery Gorbunov, chairman of the board of directors of Avtotor Holding, said earlier, in 2023 Kaliningrad plant plans to produce from 70 to 100 thousand cars. About 30,000 of them will be cars of Kaiyi brand, whose assembly started at the enterprise at the end of January. The first Kaiyi model produced in Kaliningrad was a C-class sedan called E5, which will go on sale in the first quarter of 2023. Then Kaiyi lineup in Russia will be replenished with the compact crossovers Kaiyi X3 and X3 Pro, and in the middle of the year - the flagship X7 Kunlun.

In addition, Avtotor is currently actively negotiating cooperation with at least two other automakers from China. According to unofficial data, we are talking about BAIC and Dongfeng.