Taxi are rapidly aging in Russia

In some regions, the average age of cars serving in a taxi exceeded 10 years, and in some it reached 15 and 20. Izvestia write about this with reference to the report of the International Eurasian Taxi Forum. The oldest cars are in the Trans -Baikal Territory, where they are on average 17 years old, in Chukotka (19 years each) and in Buryatia (at 21). And the situation will only aggravate due to high prices and inaccessibility of loans, experts predict.

The youngest machines, which are on average less than five years, are listed in the taxi pages of Altai, Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Moscow Region, as well as the Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Rostov regions and Bashkiria.

The most “checkeeper” are worn by LADA: out of more than a million cars 123 thousand (15.8 percent) are “Lada”, 116 thousand (14.9 percent) – KIA, 109 thousand – Hyundai (13.9 percent). Next are Volkswagen, Toyota and Skoda, and the eighth and ninth places went to the Chinese Cher and Haval, which bypassed the number of Nissan.

In Russia, they want to levy increased tax from the owners of old machines taxes will hastily purchase foreign cars on the eve of the Law on Localization of Cars in Russia, grow and expenses for their repair

There are also electric cars in a taxi, but because of the climate and poor availability of charging stations there are few of them. Most of all-in the Nizhny Novgorod region (420 cars), St. Petersburg (300) and Moscow Region (242). In Moscow, only 159 “batteries” taxis are listed.

The carriers at the beginning of 2025 in the country registered 194 thousand, and the majority (131 thousand) are self -employed. Another 59 thousand is an individual entrepreneur, and only 3.7 thousand are a legal entity. According to experts, it is the self -employed who are the main backbone of the country’s taxi drivers that will suffer most of the law on taxi localization, as they drive on their own cars. The law will enter into force in the spring of 2026.

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