Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled Friday prototypes of a domestically manufactured electric car that is hoped will hit the road within three years. “Today we are witnessing together a historic day when Turkey’s 60-year-old dream is coming true,” Erdogan told a ceremony in the Kocaeli province in northwestern Turkey. Turkey has a considerable auto manufacturing sector, but it mostly subsidiaries or partners of international carmakers. Production is expected to get underway in 2022 by a consortium of five Turkish industiral firms dubbed TOGG. Some 175,000 vehicles are expected to roll off the production line per year at a factory to be built south of Istanbul in the city of Bursa.

Source: Punch December 27, 2019 15:33 UTC