Editing Economy of Ukraine (section)

====Automotive industry====
{{see also|Automotive industry in Ukraine}}
[[File:LAZ-5208DL (Lviv - Kyiv).jpg|thumb|A LAZ-5208DL built by Lviv Bus Factory]]
[[File:LvivCityCenterJuly.JPG|thumb|A modern Electron T5L64 tram]]
Ukraine automobile manufacturers produces diesel locomotives, tractors, trucks, buses, trolleybuses, own-designed cars and trams. There are 12 automobile manufacturers in Ukraine, including [[ZAZ]], [[LuAZ]], [[Bogdan Corporation|Bogdan]], [[KrAZ]], [[Eurocar]], Electron, and [[Lviv Bus Factory|LAZ]].

ZAZ (Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant) is the main automobile-manufacturer of Ukraine, based in the south-eastern city of [[Zaporizhzhia]]. Passenger car manufacturing in Ukraine started in 1959. From 1960 to 1994, a total of 3,422,444 [[ZAZ Zaporozhets|Zaporozhets]] vehicles were manufactured in Zaporizhzhia and engines with air-cooling in Melitopol. In 2011–2012, the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant started serial full-scale production of two new models of vehicle, the [[Chery A13|ZAZ Forza]] (a re-badged Chinese Chery A13) and the [[Chevrolet Aveo|ZAZ Vida]] (a re-badged Daewoo Aveo).

The Bogdan Corporation is a leading Ukrainian automobile-manufacturing group, including several car- and bus-makers of Ukraine. [[Bogdan (bus model)|Bogdan]] buses (re-badged Isuzu models) are used as the primary small buses in most Ukrainian cities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-04 |title=Bogdan Corporation - Ukrainian National Automobile Manufacturer |url=https://bogdan.ua/en/main/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en-US}}</ref>

LAZ used to be one of the major bus manufacturers in Ukraine. It manufactured city buses, coach buses, trolley buses, and special purpose buses. The company has been defunct since 2014.

The Lviv-based company Electrontrans is an enterprise of a full-scale production, specialising in design and production of modern urban electric transport – trams, trolleybuses, electric buses, units, and spare parts. In 2013 Electrotrans starts producing low-floor trams, the first Ukrainian 100% low-floor tramways.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zik.ua/ua/news/2013/05/24/410451 |title=Низькопідлоговий трамвай ось-ось завершать. У червні він уже може поїхати Львовом<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=4 February 2016 |archive-date=16 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016080929/http://zik.ua/ua/news/2013/05/24/410451 |url-status=dead }}</ref>