LCVs (up to 5t gvw) in the first nine months of 2020, Avtostat Info reports the segment contracted by 8.2% to 66,906 units.

GAZ Group of Nizhny Novgorod – a JSC Russian Machines subsidiary - has developed a prototype city bus (LiAZ-529267-72-30) running on liquefied natural gas (LNG).

In spite of the corona-virus pandemic, new light commercial vehicles (N1 category - gross vehicle weights of up to 3.5t - including buses of the M2 category up to 5t gvw) fell by just 12.8% in January to June this year to 40,082 units compared with 45,964 units in the same period of last year, according to figures from Avtostat Info.

According to statistics collated by LLC Avtostat Info, Russia registered 6,263 new buses (>5t gvw) in the first half of 2020, which was 1.2% up on 6,187 units in 1H/2019.

GAZ Group has presented pre-production modified models of its electric GAZelle vehicles, the Gazelle e-NN.

June saw JSC KAMAZ present its first electric truck – Kamaz-53198 refuse collection truck, which has been developed by the KAMAZ Science and Technology Centre at the company’s headquarters in Naberezhnye Chelny.

Gorky Auto Plant has presented the first examples of a new medium-duty city truck, the new Valdai NEXT generation.

Knorr-Bremse AG has been awarded a supply contract by trailer and bus manufacturer, NEFAZ, a subsidiary of JSC KAMAZ (Kama Automobile Plant).

PJSC Kamaz has started commercial sales of its new Kamaz-54901 highway tractor, the first in its K5 model range.

GAZ has started sales of additional models of the Sadko NEXT off-road truck by offering an extended wheelbase (C41A43) and a two-row cab option (C42A43).

The Russian market for trucks with gross vehicle weights of over 5 tons (>5t gvw) has contracted by 2.8% in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1/20) compared with the same period last year, according to statistics kept by LLC Avtostat Info.

In Q1/20, the Russian bus market (GVW>5t) registered 3,448 new buses, which was 29.9% more than 2,655 vehicles in the same period of 2019, according to LLC Avtostat Info.