Ellada - elektroditya AvtoVAZ »

Engineers AvtoVAZ constructed electric vehicle based on the model Lada Kalina. Car that runs on electric, was named Ellada, it is currently being tested. In the design department of the Volga car in full swing working on building cars that can run on alternative fuels. The main task for the near future was to create a car that runs on electricity. Layouts are ready for testing, the basis for future domestic electric vehicle served as a favorite of Vladimir Putin - Lada Kalina. Before the official launch of new products into production far - Ellada project is only at the testing stage with the models running on electric motors. Sat behind the wheel of a prototype of the chief designer of AvtoVAZ, Sergei rump. According to unconfirmed by the data as a donor for the future of electric vehicles became the Kalina in station wagon, which is quite logical, since the batteries take up some space. Just unofficial sources reported that "Elektrolada will accelerate to 140 km / h, acceleration to 100 km / h will be 12 seconds, and charge its batteries will last for 170 km journey. Representatives of AvtoVAZ is not yet ready to say something specific about the start of production of electric vehicles, including the estimated cost Ellada. Serial production of this car will not start before there will be conditions for its operation. According to reports in the media that "vazovtsy" Again, not officially confirmed, the Russian electric car will be presented in a year or two, mass production will be established at the newly built near Novosibirsk plant for production of lithium-ion batteries, and its price will be 500-700 thousand rubles . If the plant is not completed by the beginning of production Ellada, the first electric cars will be equipped with Chinese batteries. According to the plan of development of the Volga car until 2020, two years on an assembly line seven new models, including Lada Granta, model Renault Logan platform and Nissan Almera. In this case, the production capacity of the plant eventually grow to 900,000 cars a year. On the one hand, these plans are rather ambitious, given the sale of Russian automaker and the quality of the cars on it. On the other hand is likely to help, including hybrid technology from partners AvtoVAZ »- Renault and Nissan. "Elektrolada" - not the first elektomobil AvtoVAZ. For the first time engineers engaged in the development of the Volga car cars powered by electric traction in 1974 when the USSR Ministry of the auto industry has decided not to lag behind other countries that are already in full develop cars that run on electricity. It was planned that these machines will be used in public view. In the spring of that year at AvtoVAZ was established design departments in the development of electric vehicles. All power units and operating systems, as well as herself elektrotyagovaya installation engineers to develop from scratch. The first model with an electric motor was designed based on the gasoline avtorollera E11011. The prototype was equipped with a traction motor DT-11, issued at the plant "Dzerzhinets, and ten of starter batteries. Planned that this model will cost much cheaper than their gasoline counterparts, and the small size will be thrilled with youth through the machine will be a success in the market. However, mass production electric vehicle has not started because there was not enough steel. The next step in the evolution of the electric vehicle AVTOVAZ were two prototypes, assembled on the basis of the van VAZ-2102. Machines have motors 25 and 40 kW, were released at the same factory "Dzerzhinets. Weaker motor allows the car to accelerate to 87 km / h. As a result, it was decided to issue an experimental batch of electric VAZ-2801 for further testing. However, pre-production samples were less high-torque and with reduced dimensions, which was also not in favor of the electric vehicle. Design Bureau of AvtoVAZ for many years engaged in development of electric vehicles. During this time, were created and lightweight version with a body of carbon fiber, and a golf-mobiles, and small truck "Pony" and a variety of "science technical." By the way, Ellada may not be the first production electric vehicles in Russia. In the next year to begin production of the e-Mobil, the project manager ONEKSIM Mikhail Prokhorov. The price of electric vehicles with the logo "E" is already known - about 450 thousand rubles. In addition, competition from Forklift AvtoVAZ could make Renault Fluence ZE and Kangoo Van Z.E. Their dynamic characteristics are roughly the same data Ellada: French electric accelerates to 130 km / h, and charge their batteries is 160 km, while they cost from 30 euros.