Putin ordered the creation of a road map for the location of battery production.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian government and Rosatom to develop an action plan to stabilize the production of rechargeable batteries. This was reported on the Kremlin website.
"The government of the Russian Federation, together with the state corporation Rosatom and in cooperation with other interested organizations, should develop and approve an action plan (roadmap) for the production of batteries (cells), batteries and electrical energy storage systems."
- written in the document.
Also, the government and Rustom were instructed to determine a list of investment projects necessary for the production of critical types of raw materials, materials and components, and to determine production dates.
The report on the performance of the assignment must be submitted before February 1, 2027.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin, at the opening ceremony of the country's first electric battery cluster of the Technopolis Moscow SEZ, said that technological leadership is impossible "without the development of energy and the creation of modern high-energy storage devices." He drew the attention of state corporations, technology companies and startups to the need to improve technologies in this area and introduce new developments. Even earlier, the president called for increasing the level of localization of battery production, including through the development of mineral resource deposits.