MINSK, 25 April (BelTA) – Belarusian scientists have designed three models of electric vehicles, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov on 25 April.
The official said: “We've developed a small truck, an electric car based on a Geely model, and a minivan, which has met a strong interest. We are testing them now. We will manufacture an entire lineup of these electric vehicles by the end of the year. Some may be available for sale. We are going to reveal them before our institutes so that they could test them thoroughly. The components are made by our industrial enterprises, so we have components of our own already. We also intend to switch a municipal vehicle to electricity. We are working on it with BelAZ and MAZ.”
A session of the General Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is in progress in Minsk today. The General Meeting is the supreme collegiate authority to run the Academy of Sciences. Taking part in the session are about 500 representatives of academic science, university science, and industry science, young Belarusian scientists as well as representatives of government agencies. Participants of the session are supposed to discuss results of the work done in 2018, the development tasks the Academy and the country's scientific sphere will have to accomplish in 2019, and amendments to the regulation on electing members of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
In 2018 the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus made a substantial contribution to the country's social and economic development. The Academy successfully hit its assigned social and economic development targets. The Academy performed Br682.9 million worth of multidisciplinary work or 109.2% as against 2017.
