Brest region plans to establish production of electric trucks with Chinese partners

In the Brest region in cooperation with Chinese partners plan to establish the production of truck electric vehicles. This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee Mikhail Batsenko, BelTA writes.

A delegation of official and business circles of the Brest region headed by Chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee Petr Parkhomchik went to China. The program provides for meetings and negotiations, visits to enterprises. Now representatives of Brest region work in the province of Anhui.

“In the morning, we met with the management of the partner company, where we discussed the points on which there is already progress. By 2026, about 96 sets of medium-duty trucks were delivered. About 48 have already been assembled and shipped to our customers. Next year, the development plan provides for the creation of up to 200 medium-duty trucks with different load capacity, said Mikhail Batsenko.

Brestmash cooperates with this Chinese company, implementing various joint projects. We agreed that we will develop a strategy for the next five years, which includes electric trucks, increasing the production of trucks on an internal combustion engine. The next project that we will definitely do is pickup trucks, which are called T8 and T9 here, the deputy chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee said. During the negotiations, an agreement on further cooperation between the parties was signed.

During the visit to China, which will last until November 12, the delegation of the Brest region will also visit Shanxi province. On the agenda is to increase trade turnover, search for new projects for joint implementation.