Former Zastava engineers working on electric car to be produced in Serbia

The Expert Team of Zastava (Ekspertski Tim Zastava – ETZ) from Kragujevac is preparing project documentation for the production of electric vehicles based on an existing model.

The team consists of former Zastava engineers and professors at the Faculty of Engineering in Kragujevac, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, and the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade and has been formed at the initiative of a foreign investor, who is prepared to finance the preparation of the project and the prototype of the electric car to be produced in Serbia.

Zoran Radojevic, a member of ETZ, has confirmed for FoNet that the team has been formed and that organizational preparations for the drafting of the project documentation have begun and added that “everything else is in the consultation phase”.

– Our experts have the knowledge and the experience when it comes to making cars. They have been recognized by people who are in the business of developing the car industry and Serbia should use that potential – Radojevic said.

He reminded that ETZ had prepared a prototype of the new electric car model back in 2010, based on Zastava 10.

The car, featuring a 20-kW electric engine, ran at 120 km/h and could travel 100 km on a single battery charge, Radojevic said.

He added that the vehicle had been patented at the Institute for Patents and that it had been registered and used in traffic.

Petar Jovanovic, the ETZ team member in charge of monitoring the development of electric vehicles in Europe, told FoNet that electric cars had become the number one topic at all expert gatherings in the field and that the car shows in Geneva and Frankfurt in 2019 were also dedicated to electric cars.

Jovanovic said that the technology had made great advances in the past nine years, especially when it comes to the production of batteries and engines.

It is now far easier to realize one such project, he added and pointed out that numerous countries were getting involved in the field, even those that are traditionally not car manufacturing countries, such as Austria.

Grupa Zastava vozila

Zavod za intelektualnu svojinu Republike Srbije

Fakultet inženjerskih nauka Kragujevac

Mašinski fakultet Beograd

Tehnološko metalurški fakultet Beograd

Zastava electric car

Ekspertski tim Zastava

Expert Team of Zastava

Zoran Radojević

Petar Jovanović

Zastava 10