Recently, a tender was announced for a significant plot of land, which is to be part of the entire Polish Izera electric car factory. However, companies other than Electromobility Poland, which owns the brand, will also be able to apply for the purchase. In correspondence with TVN24, representatives of the company admit that if it is not possible to acquire land, other locations are being considered.
As the Katowice Special Economic Zone recently announced in a press release, “the open part of the tender, i.e. the opening of bids, their formal assessment and the announcement of entities qualified for the classified part of the tender” will take place on September 26.
The asking price for the property is PLN 128 million. The offered real estate purchase price must be higher than the asking price.
In response to TVN24’s questions, Electromobility Poland emphasizes that it will take part in the tender recently announced by the KSEZ for the purchase of land in the Jaworzno Economic Area. “However, we have alternative locations, if it would not be possible to acquire this land. We assume, however, that Izera will be associated with Jaworzno” – we read.
“The start of the construction process is planned for early 2024. The first units will leave the production lines at the end of 2025, and sales will start in mid-2026,” it added.
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Ambitious plans
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.
At the end of July 2021, the State Treasury signed an investment agreement with ElectroMobility Poland regarding the acquisition of new EMP shares worth PLN 250 million. “Signing the contract and recapitalizing EMP enables the implementation of the next stage of development of the project of the Polish brand of electric cars. The current shareholders of the company remain in the minority shareholding structure with shares in the amount of 4.325 percent each, the share of the State Treasury is 82.70 percent.” the company said at the time.
The prototypes of Polish electric cars were presented in July 2020. The director of technical product development of ElectroMobility Poland, Łukasz Maliczenko, explained then that Izera would 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.
At the beginning of the year, representatives of the company presented completely different terms in the Sejm. 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. Sales are expected to start in 2026.
One million electric cars
Announcements of a million electric cars on Polish roads were made already in 2016, i.e. the first full year of the government PIS. From the beginning, the then deputy prime minister and the minister of development were responsible for this project Mateusz Morawiecki and Minister of Energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski. At a joint conference in June 2016, Tchórzewski said that “in 10 years we would like to have a million electric cars in our cities.” Morawiecki, on the other hand, named the “Electric car” project as the flagship project of his “Strategy for Responsible Development” adopted by the government in February 2017. A month later, the “National Policy Framework for the Development of Alternative Fuels Infrastructure” was adopted, in which the Ministry of Energy officially indicated 50,000 electric cars in Poland as the target for 2020, and as many as one million for 2025.
In 2020, she addressed the topic Supreme Chamber of Controlwhich determined that at the end of 2019, there were 9.6 thousand registered in Poland. electric vehicles, which accounted for less than 20 percent. target for that year. “Electromobility in Poland at the end of 2019 was still at the initial stage, despite the passage of three years from the presentation of its vision” – assessed the auditors. However, in a report commissioned in 2019 by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology, it was stated that “achieving the goal of one million electric cars in 2025 is unrealistic”.
Recent data confirms just how unrealistic this promise was. According to the Electromobility Counter prepared by the Polish Alternative Fuels Association (PSPA), at the end of February 2023, there were less than 67,000 in Poland. electric cars. That’s 15 times less than promised. According to the documents of the Ministry of Energy adopted in 2017 by the government, this number was to be reached in 2020, and in 2023 there were to be almost 550,000 cars. – more than eight times more than today.
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