Press releases

3 Jun 2019

Belarus working on electric race car

MINSK, 3 June (BelTA ) - Belarusian scientists are working on an electric race car, the head of R&D engineering center for electromechanical and hybrid propulsion systems of mobile machines at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Aleksandr Belevich told the media, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian cars will become the unofficial participants of the Electric Marathon for the Cup of Andrei Nagel 2019 and will travel along the roads of Belarus with the numbers of the marathon. “We want to show that Belarus has its own electric vehicle engineering, boast our competences. We hope that next year we will be able to participate in the rally because we are implementing a project on an electric race car. So far the work is in progress and we are set to get the results next year,” Aleksandr Belevich said.

The Electric Marathon kicked off in Monte Carlo on 27 May. The 4,300km rally goes through: the Principality of Monaco – France – Italy - San Marino – Croatia – Hungary – Slovakia – Poland – Belarus - Russia. The rally will finish in St Petersburg on 6 June.

The rally crossed the Belarusian-Polish border on 2 June and arrived in Minsk on 3 June. Today the participants of the rally visited the national range to test electric cars of the United Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and got familiar with an exhibition of Belarusian electric transport.

The marathon aims to draw attention to the issues of environmental protection, to promote e-transport and contribute to the development of the electric vehicle charging stations networks.