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With regards to Niva, it will be necessary to wait until 2024 for the new models to be released. Meanwhile, the design of the new vehicles will have nothing in common with the concept car 4×4 Vision, which was presented at the Moscow Motor Show in 2018. The engine range will also be unified with the other models of Renault and Dacia. The base engine will most likely be a 1.6 litres naturally aspirated 114 hp motor.
A new 1.3 litres turbo engine, which was developed by Renault in cooperation with Daimler Group, is likely to be the main power unit of the vehicle. The turbo engine has already been installed in the second generation of Russian Duster and the Arkana crossover.
The other newcomers out of the aforementioned 5 models will probably be the new C-class crossover and the re-designed Vesta, which will be released in 2022. It’s not known exactly what Maure meant by the definition of a new B-class line, on the other hand. He might well have in mind the new generation of Granta.
Logan and Sandero will be the other Renault debutants in the Russian market. The exteriors of the sedan and hatchback have recently been patented by the company, at the Federal Institute of Industrial Property.
To promote the sales and service of electric cars, the EBRD is loaning €20 million to Winner, Ukraine’s leading importer and retailer of electric cars. To be matched by Winner’s investment of €23 million, the money will go to building environmentally sound dealerships for Renault and Volvos, two brands that are fast adopting electric models. EBRD says its loan is matched by an EU guarantee. Ukraine currently has about 25,000 electric cars and 9,000 charging stations.
9.2.3 Transport corporate news
Catering to Ukraine’s migrant workers in Poland, FlixBus is launching a new cross-country route – from Kharkiv to Lutsk to Lublin to Warsaw. With the expansion, FlixBus will serve all of Ukraine’s 24 regional capitals, largely with routes to Central Europe and the Baltics.
The National Security and Defense Council instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to assign the duties of CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia to Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. If approved by the railroad’s Supervisory Board, Kubrakov would succeed Ivan Yuryk and become the fourth head of the railroad in the two years of the Zelenskiy presidency. The Council also formally requested the railroad to raise freight rates to ‘economically justified levels.’ UZ moves 82% of the freight in Ukraine.
Through radical cost cutting, UIA turned a $108 million loss in the first half of last year into $810,000 net profit for January-June of this year, the airline reports. During the first half of this year, Ukraine’s national flag airline carried 1 million passengers, up 8% yoy, but down 71% compared to the first half of 2019.
Ukraine International Airlines carries almost twice as many passengers on charter flights than on regularly scheduled flights, the airline reports.
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