The head of the communications and transportation in the municipality of Moscow Leonid Ibsets that it is likely to start in 2009 in the production of the first electric car, and during the meeting of the Department of the Russian capital yesterday.

He Ibsets in statements reported by the Russian news agency "Novosti": "we have been studying the possibility of buying electric cars abroad, but from Moscow in 2009 will begin in the compilation of national electric car manufacture and use." It is scheduled to be completed in Moscow in the current year build the first factory for the production of vehicles running on electricity, which will be tested first Russian electric cars.

He noted that the purchase of the first batch experimental environmentally clean electric cars from foreign producers. And the ability of the engines used ranged between 9 and 30 kW and the extent of work without recharging batteries approximately 150 km.

The head of the Communications and Transport: "If the use of electric cars on a large scale will be charged less than those cars operating gasoline."

Source: Osama1800