Yandex launched the development of electric vehicles.

Kerefov did not provide details about the new address, but posted a link to a website with 26 vacancies. These include a lead light commercial electric vehicle designer, a charging infrastructure manager, an intern, a junior design engineer and an embedded software programmer.

According to the descriptions, one of the objectives of the project is to develop “cheaper, more reliable, comfortable and practical light commercial vehicles.” The design engineer vacancy concerns, in particular, electric vehicles and electric scooters.

The team that Yandex brings together “will invent and control the entire chain, from the basic concept and circuits of the power plant, to battery software, component assembly and maintenance of charging stations.” The site also says that Yandex Electro creates solutions for both ordinary users and businesses.

“We are studying the possibilities of electric transport in the field of logistics,” the Yandex press service informed RB.RU.

Earlier this week, Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh said in an interview with TechCrunch that a military operation in Ukraine disrupted the launch of Yandex’s autonomous vehicles in Russia. The businessman claimed that Yandex could have launched fully autonomous cars on public roads before Google, but the team “had to quickly pack up all the equipment and leave the country in a matter of weeks.”

The team that worked on the Yandex autonomous vehicle project founded the startup Avride in 2023. It is based in Massachusetts and belongs to the Nebius group, the former parent company of Yandex, which changed its name from Yandex NV. In the summer, the company sold the Russian business to a consortium of investors and withdrew from Yandex shareholders. maintaining your international business.