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Korea’s Motrex to build EV
charging stations in Uzbekistan
SOUTH KOREA SOUTH Korea’s Motrex is set to help Uzbekistan in Australia, Brazil, the US, UAE, Turkey, China
expand its currently low number of charging sta- and other countries.
tions for electric vehicles (EVs). At the beginning of the year, Uzbekistan’s
Uzbekistan’s innovation ministry announced energy ministry announced the development of
the signing of a corresponding agreement by the country’s first state programme for the crea-
representatives of the Australian division of tion of a network of EV charging stations. They
Motrex and Uzbek technopark Yashnabad. The are primarily planned for installation in densely
signing ceremony took place on October 19 at populated areas.
the InnoWeek 2022 exhibition. Private investors, such as Megawatt Motors,
The company plans to introduce $2.5mn Makro and TokBor are engaged in EV infra-
worth of technologies for the production of structure development in Uzbekistan. In March
charging stations for EVs. of this year, Megawatt Motors agreed with the
Founded in 2001, Motrex creates digital sys- State Committee of Ecology to install EV charg-
tems for cars and trains. The company has offices ing stations “every 100 km”.
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