Warsaw's target of having 1 million EVs on the road by 2025 has been given a boost with the announcement that the country's energy firms are to joint forces for the project with the aim of creating a homegrown electric vehicle.
A spokesperson for Electromobility Poland, the company behind the project, said that the car will be “tailored to the needs of Polish customers in terms of price, accessories and parameters, but also attractive for European customers”.
The spokesperson added that Poland is “the largest internal market in Europe without its own national brand. Therefore our main aim is to create a producer which will operate on the automotive market and sell EVs under its own brand name.”
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Polonez, 1978. photo: Archiwum Karlicki / East News
Poland presently has no national carmaker since the closure of FSO Polonez in 2002.
The project is still in its early stages and no location has yet been decided. The budget has also yet to be announced but industry sources have floated the figure of €1-billion.
Clean vehicles expert Julia Poliscanova welcomed the announcement but warned that the manufacture of electric vehicles “highly energy intensive so more effort needs to be put into decarbonising electricity grids”.
Poland is still heavily reliant on coal, although steps have been made recently to clean up its energy and the country has invested heavily in renewable energy.
If the planned EV project becomes a reality, it will add to Poland's impressive e-mobility portfolio, The country plays host to one of Europe's largest battery plants with electric bus companies already firmly established.
Last month, Mercedes-Benz announced that it would be investing in its own battery plant in the country.
Also, the European Commission gave the go-ahead to a €36-million investment aid package as a boost for South Korean chemical manufacturers LG Chem to continue their investment in Li-ion batteries in the country's Dolnoślaskie region.
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