OREANDA-NEWS. "Electric Vesta – is among our plans. Wait and you will certainly be surprised when it will be ready, "- the executive vice president of research and development of "AvtoVAZ", Harald Grubel, noted in March in the Russian automotive forum in Moscow. He has no doubt that Russian engineers can do anything, and AvtoVAZ is simply obliged to become the first in the field of engineering in Russia, by using a time of crisis for the successful preparation for the launch of new products.

What is being done in terms of R & D at AvtoVAZ? Today 2.5 thousand people work here (in the last year and in this division it was a lot of layoffs). "We can say that we remain competitive, and we have very good facilities for work. Many companies in Europe would like to receive the equipment that we have ...", - said Mr.Grubel, obviously he is referring to the Center for impact testing, climatic test chamber, wind tunnel, test stands EURO-6, dynamometer stand and test site.

"The most important thing for me is that the engineers are now engaged in working time technology, and not something else. We want to work with engines, with cars and do not want to work only with paper”, - the Vice-President told the participants of the forum. - We aim to save 1 billion in R & D. And it is not just some isolated events, and complex work. We will save on materials, more efficient design, on modularity, on the use of new materials, the right technologies, we will try to optimize the architecture, management processes, to use better of our knowledge - all of which should bring us such savings...".