PRESS STATEMENT

Autonomous GAZelle NEXT has run on Gazprom

Neft oilfield roads

The new driverless electric GAZelle NEXT has just been on test operation at Gazprom Neft’s Yuzhno-
Priobskoe oilfield. The driverless electric GAZelle made regular trips on the oilfield roads. The vehicle was
used for test operation and specific business tasks, e.g. to carry industrial cargos with other transport
network members. Gazprom Neft will make a decision on the project’s future and regular operation of the
autonomous vehicle in 2021 based on the current test results.

The autonomous electric GAZelle NEXT could be seen on the roads of the Yuzhno-Priobskoe oilfield, one of the
largest in Russia. It was a real member of the company’s transport network carrying cargos between the facilities
just like any other truck. There is a special app to control the vehicle and its operation: a remote operator receives a
request from the logistics center and sends the fully autonomous vehicle to pick up the cargo and bring it to the
destination point on one of the routes.

The vehicle gives good response to all kinds of road situations and can work regular hours without any problems.
The new vehicle with its technical characteristics and the software can be operated 24/7. There must be only
breaks to charge the batteries for up to 120 km between charges.

GAZ Group in cooperation with the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University developed algorithms and
systems for safe driving on different roads, even on partially marked and unmarked ones, in typical winter
conditions of northern Russia. The technical solutions were tested on the company’s in-plant roads and testing
grounds and proved to be a success. Young university researchers and GAZ Group engineers supervised the testing
process and procedures.

Vadim Sorokin, GAZ Group President:

- Test operation of the driverless electric GAZelle in real conditions is an important stage of designing autonomous
vehicles. We are going to move forward in a more intensive way. Out next step is to work with our partners to
design standard commercially viable and effective solutions to make autonomous vehicles part of the logistics
chains of industrial and warehousing companies. This will help business cut its costs, streamline their
transportation processes and make cargo transportation safer. Another important activity for us is to use the
expertise and experience we have to integrate driver assistance systems in such GAZ Group’s serial products as
trucks and buses.

Leonid Dolgov, GAZ Group Export Director:

- Driverless electric vehicles are the world’s future and the road to clean air and 24/7 zero-downtime safe and
secure transportation services. This future is just behind the door. Today GAZ Group is testing its vehicles at
home, in Russia. And we hope that in future eco-friendly GAZ driverless vehicles will be seen on the roads across
the globe. And we will make every effort to make it happen.

Sergey Dmitriev, President of Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University:

- Over the last few years our university and GAZ Group have implemented a new model for interaction between
universities and industrial companies which is about training - as it was and still is the main element of our
partnership - and about future-generation ADAS and smart vehicle projects. Our successful partnership as well as
in-house IT expertise and competencies made it possible to create an innovative transport solution to improve
performance of the transportation industry.

Dmitry Potapov, Director General of Gazpromneft-Snabzhenie:

- We have worked with our GAZ Group partners before on large-scale test-operation of the driverless GAZelle and
tested it on typical transportation tasks. We believe the project has a great potential and we can say today that if
scaled this solution can help us reduce transportation costs and make deliveries faster.

GAZ Group (www.gazglobal.com) develops and manufactures automobiles for various types of business,
industry, cargo and passenger transportation, utility services, medical institutions and schools. The company is
sales leader on the Russian commercial vehicles market and exports its products to 40 countries of the world. It
produces light commercial vehicles and medium-duty trucks, buses and coaches, power trains and auto
components. GAZ Group vehicles are fitted with engines powered by petrol, diesel fuel, natural gas or electricity.
The company is working on implementing telematics systems and driver assist functions (ADAS) and also
develops pilotless vehicles. GAZ Group has its own engineering center, full-cycle production facilities in Russia,
as well as assembly operations in Turkey and Kazakhstan.

Contacts for media

Natalia Anisimova
AnisimovaNV@gaz.ru
Ekaterina Martineti
MartinetiEV@gaz.ru