Vedomosti: Yandex will buy 10,000 taxi cars under quotas

“Yandex.Taxi” agreed with automakers quotas for the supply of cars for the company’s taxi fleet, reports Vedomosti with reference to sources. Yandex plans to buy up to 10,000 cars under quotas by the end of this year.

One of the interlocutors of the publication said that AvtoVAZ and the Chinese brands Haval, Chery and Geely were able to provide quotas for Yandex partners. According to him, for some models of cars there may be a discount of more than 20%. According to the publication, “Yandex” is also negotiating the import of cars not yet represented in Russia.

A Vedomosti source in the Russian office of Geely confirmed that the company is cooperating with Yandex. Cooperation with Yandex.Taxi was also confirmed by a representative of Chery. None of the two companies named a specific number of delivered cars. A Haval spokesman said that in 2022, sales of taxi cars amounted to about 1,000 units. A spokesman for AvtoVAZ declined to comment.

Ivan Zapolsky, Business Development Director at Yandex.Taxi, said that the company is negotiating with automakers to supply new cars. “We plan to continue negotiations and increase quotas for partners until the end of this year and during the next one,” he said, without giving details.

In early September, Forbes informed, that the Yandex.Taxi taxi fleet does not have enough cars due to the shortage that has arisen on the market. According to the publication, the company turned to AvtoVAZ with a request for the supply of vehicles. Yandex needs 50,000 cars a year to upgrade its fleet. In “Yandex.Taxi” after the publication of the edition declaredthat do not experience a shortage of cars.

Details – in the material “Kommersant FM” “Yandex.Taxi picks up a car”.

Laura Keffer