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OREANDA-NEWS. The countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEC) will reduce import duties on components (not produced in the EAEC) for the production of electric vehicles, their basic components, as well as for electric power stations. It follows from the draft plan to support the production and usage of electric vehicles in the Union, designed for 2015-2017 years (the copy is at "Vedomosti"). The document was approved on Tuesday by the vice-premier of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia, wrote the newspaper "Vedomosti". "By combining the <...> resources of states - members of the EAEU, we can create a competitive production of electric vehicles," - said the Minister of Industry of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), Sergei Sidorsky. The plan was based on Russia's proposals, said a representative of the industrial unit of EEC. It was suggested Belarusian and Kazakh parties to exclude a number of items, including tax incentives and the abolition of utilization fee for electric vehicles.

The decision on the import duties on components for electric vehicles is planned to take in 2015-2016. Today, rates are on average 5-10%, they can be reset, said a representative of the industrial unit of EEC. Now within the Union it is supported the import of ready electric vehicles - a zero rate operates before the end of 2015. For hybrid cars privilege does not apply, but it is likely to be for the components for their production in the framework of the EAEC, said a representative of the EEC.

Officials hope that the reduction of duty on components will stimulate the local production, which is in its infancy. For example, electric buses of KAMAZ and "GAZ Group" are still being tested. AvtoVAZ is a little further advanced, who developed the electric car based on Lada Kalina, which is sold in miniscule amounts. For example, in 2014, at AvtoVAZ it was produced only 33 cars Lada El Lada, according to the data of "ASM-Holding".

Last year, it was imported about 300 electric vehicles in EAEU, the whole parc is less than 1,000 units, said an employee of EEC. In Western countries, the electric cars have 3-5% of the market, on the basis of this it could be sell more than 100 thousand of these cars in Russia in 3-5 years, says the co-owner Revolta Motors, Maxim Osorin. But it is important that at a discounted rate it was imported components exclusively for electric cars and the mechanism is not used for ordinary cars, said the analyst of "VTB Capital", Vladimir Bespalov.

The measure will reduce the cost of electric vehicles as they become available, it will increase the demand for them, then it will be the interest of global manufacturers of components that can set up the production in the EAEU, says a representative of KAMAZ. There are imported such components as batteries, motors, said a representative of AvtoVAZ. According to him, it is already preparing the production of charging stations and other components for electric vehicles in Russia.

The demand is slowed by underdeveloped charging infrastructure, continues the representative of AvtoVAZ. Such stations appear mainly in Moscow, but here the number is small, there will be 300 units until the end of the year (projects are implemented by "Rossetti" through MOESK, "Mosenergo", Revolta Motors together with Yota), and the needs of Moscow in the next 3-4 years, according to Mr.Osorin, are 1,500 units as minimum.

Draft plan for the EAEU provides benefits for organizations that hosts the power stations and the owners of these vehicles may be allowed free travel on dedicated lanes for public transport and fee roads, free parking.