Mikhail Mishustin signed electric road transport concept for period until 2030
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed the Concept and Roadmap for the Development of Production and Use of Electric Road Vehicles in the Russian Federation for the period until 2030. The documents were developed jointly by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Economic Development.
The purpose of the Concept is to define the key areas of the policies in the development of production and use of electric and hydrogen vehicles in Russia.
Adoption of these documents will have an impact on achieving the goals of the Decree of the Russian President “On National Development Goals of the Russian Federation until 2030” not only in terms of stimulating investment activities and industrial production, but also for environment in terms of reducing emissions of hazardous pollutants, as well as the goals and results of the Russian State Programme “Industrial Development and Competitiveness Improvement”.
The key targets for the implementation of the Concept are: launch of production of cells for traction batteries; launch of production of cathode and anode materials; commissioning of at least 72,000 charging stations, of which at least 28,000 will be fast-charging stations; commissioning of at least 1,000 hydrogen filling stations; creation of at least 39,000 additional high-performance jobs along the entire electrochemical, electro-mechanical, electronics, and electric vehicle manufacturing process chains.