Volkswagen's ex-factory in Russia will produce more than 110 thousand cars per year

In 2025, the former Volkswagen plant in Kaluga Region is planned to produce more than 110 thousand cars. This was announced by regional governor Vladislav Shapsha at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 11.

"This year we will already produce more than 110 thousand cars at our enterprise, former Volkswagen. The former Peugeot-Citroen will produce Haval on contract assembly, 25 thousand cars will be produced. And we also have trucks - more than 2 thousand cars have already been produced, and also this work will be continued, so we are returning to our previous indicators," Shapsha said on the Kremlin website on February 11.

According to the governor, when the automobile cluster, which included 30 interconnected enterprises and 10 thousand employees of Volkswagen, Peugeot-Citroen and Volvo, stopped in Kaluga region, the regional authorities together with the government and the Ministry of Industry and Trade started searching for partners. Now all these enterprises are owned by Russian investors, and all of them have been operating since the middle of last year. According to the results of last year, 13 thousand cars were produced in the region, Shapsha shared.

Since March 2024, Automotive Technologies has been mass-producing the Citroen C5 Aircross crossover at the PSMA Rus plant in the Kaluga region. At the end of the same year, it signed an agreement "for the contract assembly of cars of the popular Chinese brand," the manufacturer said earlier. This will ensure full utilization of lines and shops of the enterprise with body painting and welding. What exactly models are produced by the ex-Volkswagen plant, was not officially announced.

On December 24 last year it was reported that the Kaluga plant "Automobile Technologies" in 2025 plans to produce about 50 thousand cars from machine parts of the Chinese concern Great Wall Motor. One of the models to be put on the assembly line in Kaluga will be the Haval M6 crossover.