Russian electric car Atom will receive a version for tourism

The Russian Atom electric car will receive a special tourist version. This was announced on March 27 by Motor.<url>", which published an image of a promising novelty.

In the image, the hatchback is presented with a crossover body kit made of unpainted plastic along the lower perimeter of the body, new bumpers, door linings, bright accents in the exterior, as well as crossbars for installing a box on the roof.

The Atom electric car will receive a 204 hp (294 Nm) motor and a 77 kWh battery, which will provide up to 500 km of power reserve. The length of the model reaches 3995 mm. Atom's serial production is scheduled for the third quarter of 2025, and electric cars will be produced at the Moskvich plant in Moscow.

Earlier, on January 28, Kama showed the first pre-production prototypes of the Atom electric car. These are full-fledged cars with working functionality, and their design fully corresponds to the future production version. The pre-production samples were assembled by the project team outside the assembly line using a non-production process and are intended for physical testing in laboratories, landfills and public roads.

On December 20 last year, it was reported that before the launch of mass production in 2025, the Atom electric car would undergo three rounds of crash tests, using 30 cars. The developers of the model plan to get a result equivalent to four stars according to the C-NCAP safety rating.