OREANDA-NEWS. Despite the active speculation of the topic of electric vehicles in the Russian media and profile ministries, a number of statements in support of the development of environmentally friendly types of transport that was made by officials in recent years, interest in electric cars for Russians is still at a low level. So, in January-May of 2017, sales of new electric vehicles in Russia were 21 units, which is less by 16% than a year before (25 units).

Most of this volume comes falls on representatives of the Tesla brand (15 units). The rest 6 electric cars belong to the brands Renault and Nissan: by 3 for each. As for the model range, Tesla X (11 units) is the leader, it increased its volumes (for 5 months of 2016 it was sold only one such car).–Tesla S is in the second place (4 units), which, on the contrary, showed a negative dynamics (-63.6%). Nissan Leaf and Renault Twizy are the next. The volume of the market of the first model fell (3 units vs. 5 units in January-May of 2016), the volume of the second one, on the contrary, grew (3 units vs. 1 unit).