MINSK, 28 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian car manufacturer BelGee intends to make 10,000 electric cars and hybrid cars in 2026. SZAO BelGee Director General Gennady Svidersky mentioned the figure during the Intellectual Belarus forum on 28 January, BelTA has learned.
“Our plant has an automated production control system and an automated quality control system. It is necessary to spread this practice throughout our country’s machine-building complex. Since the plant began operating, it has produced more than 300,000 vehicles,” said Gennady Svidersky.
One of the important areas of development in passenger car manufacturing is the production of cars that run on new types of fuel. “We began working on the possibilities in 2021 and looked into the possible demand for it. We can see the dynamics: while electric cars used to be something unique in the world and it was economically unfeasible to mass-produce these models, last year showed that up to 20% of cars are either hybrids or passenger cars with electric motors,” said the director of the enterprise.
BelTA reported earlier that Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko set the task of increasing the production of electric vehicles at a session of the Belarusian People’s Congress. “It’s time for BelGee to raise the bar and ensure the production of at least 10,000 domestic electric cars and hybrids per year,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
According to Gennady Svidersky, the plant plans to produce 10,000 electric vehicles and hybrids in 2026. It intends to produce three models: Geely EX5, Geely EX2, and the BelGee X80 hybrid.
The Intellectual Belarus forum was organized by the republican public association Belaya Rus and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB). The forum has become a large-scale expert platform for discussing key areas of the country’s development, the role of science and education in strengthening Belarus’ sovereignty, and the introduction of advanced R&D products in the economy and the social sphere. Four key thematic areas were considered during the forum: technological leadership, a healthy nation, food security, and the preservation of historical truth.
Participants discussed the application of artificial intelligence technologies in branches of the national economy and the social sphere, digital design as a tool for creating innovative machines, vehicles, and equipment as well as and the development of electric transport in Belarus. A separate block was devoted to modern challenges in the field of infectious diseases, the development of personalized medicine, and the introduction of high-tech treatment methods, including CAR-T therapy, into Belarusian clinical practice. Experts touched upon the role of genetics in ensuring the country’s food independence, prospects for implementing the national food security doctrine until 2040 as well as the tasks of intensifying animal husbandry and the training of appropriate specialists. They also focused on the historical foundations of the ideology of the Belarusian state, the genocide of the Belarusian nation during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and the contribution of historical science to the investigation of the relevant criminal cases.
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