Governor: Russia’s Ural plant to produce 14,500 trucks in 2023

MOSCOW, Dec 5 (PRIME) -- Russian automobile plant Ural plans to produce 14,500 trucks in 2023, Chelyabinsk Region’s Governor Alexei Teksler told PRIME on Tuesday.

“Automobile plant Ural is raising its production gradually. It produced 9,000 vehicles in 2022, should produce 14,500 vehicles in 2023, and plans to produce 19,000 vehicles in 2024. The company is implementing a large-scale upgrade program, it is developing new types of products, creating new jobs, and building a new conveyor line. In the future, the program should allow the company to raise the production volume to 23,000 cars per year,” Teksler said.

The plant has developed a new model line of a drive axel with a carrying capacity of up to 16 tonnes together with the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.The plant should launch production of the axles in 2024–2026. It is also testing prototypes of electric Ural trucks. The start of mass production of a new generation of Ural trucks is scheduled for 2025, he said.

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