Automotive industry in Turkey
The automotive industry in Turkey plays an important role in the manufacturing sector of the Turkish economy.
[1] Turkish automotive companies like TEMSA, Otokar and BMC are among the world's largest van, bus and truck manufacturers.
In 1961 the first indigenously designed domestic passenger car Devrim was made by train manufacturer TCDD.
On 15 August 1925 the Turkish Aircraft, Automobile and Engine Limited Company (Tayyare Otomobil Türk Anonim Şirketi, TOMTAŞ) factory was founded in Turkey.
In 1959 the Otosan factory was established in Istanbul to produce the models of the Ford Motor Company under licence in Turkey.
In 1964 the production of the Austin and Morris vehicles of the British Motor Corporation began at the BMC factory in İzmir.
The loan, part-financing for total investments estimated at €400 million, was intended to result in an important expansion of the company's production capabilities and create around 5,000 new jobs.
The vehicles will be produced at the manufacturing plant of Tofaş in Bursa with an additional, initial, annual capacity of 135.000 cars, due to roll off the assembly line in late 2007.
[6] In 2019, the high automotive export figures were boosted by the substantial increase in sales to the Netherlands and the U.S., which saw a rise of 131% and 55%, respectively.
Togg, a Turkish automotive manufacturer of electric luxury cars, is presented on December 27, 2019[7] during a public event in Gebze in the province of Kocaeli, where the Turkish president unveiled the prototypes of a compact sedan, the T10S, and a compact SUV, the T10X, designed by Murat Günak and the design firm Pininfarina.
The factory was built in a quick time of just over 2 years, with construction having started on July 18, 2020 for a total of 1.2 million square meters.
[23] The Togg consortium includes the following Turkish companies: Turkey manufactures electric bicycles, escooters and 3 wheelers.
[27] Despite large reserves of amorphous graphite not enough is mined and there are missing links in processing it into negative electrodes (sometimes called anodes).
