Rosatom will build a huge plant for the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and industry for 26 billion rubles
In the last few days, there has been a lot of talk about the "revived" Moskvich plant and the production of a certain electric car on its basis. It is unclear what kind of car it will be, but Rostec has already announced its readiness to supply traction batteries for it . However, another major supplier will soon appear in Russia batteries — Rosatom will build a huge factory with a capacity of 14 GWh in the Kaliningrad region. This will be enough to assemble more than 200 thousand electric vehicles per year.
However, this is the maximum capacity of the enterprise with the condition of expanding production. At the first stage, the capacity will be 4 GWh, but this is quite a lot — enough for 50 thousand electric vehicles. And they are not even in the project on Moskvich yet. However, according to the government's concept of electric transport development, 71 thousand electric vehicles should be produced in the Russian Federation in 2026, and 217 thousand units by 2030.
The total investment in the construction of the gigafactory will amount to 26.35 billion rubles from 2022 to 2025. Rosatom and an unnamed second shareholder will invest 2.17 billion rubles each in the construction, subsidies from the budget of the Kaliningrad region will amount to 5 billion rubles, another 17 billion rubles will be raised through loans.
The construction of the plant will be carried out by Renera (part of the TVEL — fuel division of Rosatom) at the site of the frozen Baltic nuclear power plant 10 km from the border with Lithuania. The launch of the first line is expected in the fall of 2025. The technology partner is South Korean Enertech International Inc., 49% of which belongs to Renera. Rosatom plans to produce batteries for passenger and commercial vehicles, as well as urban electric vehicles. In March, the state corporation signed an agreement with the automaker Avtotor.
The key market for the gigafactory's products is Russia, according to the Kommersant edition in the "Rener". The company has already started designing the plant.
This is what the Shanghai Tesla gigafactory looks like. Company Rosatom will also take up a lot of space
