This week, ElectroMobility Poland, responsible for the work on the Polish electric car Izera, announced that it had established cooperation with the famous Italian design studio Pininfarina. The head of PO Donald Tusk referred to the high-profile announcements of the government and the effects of the company’s activities so far in a social media post.
Collaboration between ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) and the Italian design studio Pininfarina was announced on Tuesday at the Institute of Industrial Design. According to earlier information provided by the company, the construction of the Izera electric car factory in Jaworzno is to start at the beginning of 2024, and the start of production of the Polish electric car is planned for December 2025.
Construction of the Izera factory. Donald Tusk criticizes
The former prime minister referred to the creation of the Polish electric car in a recording posted on social media on Friday Donald Tusk.
– You want to see a million electric cars Mateusz Morawiecki? He promised them seven years ago, said the boss AFTERthen showed cut down trees and empty space.
– This is what a million electric cars look like. This is the lunar landscape in Jaworzno. Tens of thousands of trees cut down. Here, where the Polish Izera was to be built. This is how the fulfillment of this promise looks like – he said in the recording.
One million electric cars
The one million electric cars mentioned by Donald Tusk in the recording is a promise made in 2016 by Mateusz Morawiecki, then as Deputy Prime Minister. He stated then, during the presentation of the project “On the way to electromobility”, that by 2025 there will be so many cars with alternative drive on Polish roads.
She also criticized the Polish government’s policy on electromobility Supreme Chamber of Control. It was shown, among others, that the Act on electromobility required the purchase of such cars from offices that failed to fulfill this obligation.
“Even in the government’s strategic documents adopted in 2019, the vision of a million electric vehicles in 2025 was gradually withdrawn. The Sustainable Transport Strategy until 2030 assumed that the fleet of electric cars would eventually amount to 600,000 units” – it was pointed out.
ElctroMobility Poland
ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) was established in October 2016 and was an initiative of four Polish energy concerns: PGE, Energa, Enea and Tauron, which each took 25 percent of the shares. share capital. The share capital amounted to PLN 70 million.
Prototypes of Polish electric cars presented in July 2020. The director of technical product development of ElectroMobility Poland, Łukasz Maliczenko, explained then that Izera is to leave the production line in the third quarter of 2023. Earlier, at the turn of the second and third quarter of 2021, a factory and a production line were to be built.
Main photo source: PAP/Zbigniew Meissner