“Russian-Made EVs See Surge in Sales in First Four Months of 2023”

Specialists of the agency “AUTOSTAT” shared interesting statistics on sales of electric vehicles on the Russian market in the period from January to April of this year. Judging by the data of PPK JSC, over the past four months, 587 electric vehicles of domestic assembly have found buyers in Russia.

In the segment of cars with all-electric power plants, electric vehicles, which are produced at Russian plants under the Evolute and Moskvich brands, accounted for 23.7% of sales in total. The Evolute i-Pro sedans sold best of all, with 379 sold in four months. In second place was the Evolute i-Joy SUV (173 copies), and the electric Moskvich 3e closed the top three, which managed to find 35 buyers during this period.

Domestic electric vehicles in the Russian market compete with imported models of German, Chinese and American brands. Russian-made models have not yet reached the market success of the Germans and Chinese (834 and 616 cars, that is, 33.7% and 24.9% of sales, respectively), but, for example, American electric cars are already behind – only 389 sold copies and 15.7% of total sales over the past four months.

The Avtostat agency also notes that among German electric vehicles, Volkswagen models are the most popular, among Chinese – Voyah, BYD and Zeekr, and from American ones – Tesla. At the same time, among the imported bestsellers, only Voyah electric cars are officially sold in Russia: Volkswagen recently sold all its local assets to Avilon, BYD left our market ten years ago and has not returned since then, and Tesla and Zeekr models have always been brought to us “grey”.