The Electroputere (EP) V54 was a tram series produced by Electroputere of Craiova, in the (then) People's Republic of Romania in the 1950s, with a total of 265 units built, excluding the 37 units of the earlier V951 Festival tramcars, produced by URAC Bucharest.

Inspired by the PCC streetcar, the name comes from the Romanian "Vagon (din anul 19)54", translated to as "Tramcar model year 1954".

Apart from 3 "Festival"s and a V54 motorcar that were scrapped after burning down in a fire at the Victoria tram depot in 1968, the fleet kept serving until their modernization relatively unchanged.

However, during later refurbishments, the 1VU snow cleaners had their equipment replaced with those from scrapped EP/V3A motor cars, while the VMB-VRB ballast tippers were withdrawn from use in the 1990s.

Thus in the same year, a unit was modernized by the ITB main workshops, keeping the structure of the tram relatively similar, albeit slightly modernized but with the electrical part and bogies changed, using the equipment from the ITB V3A trams, that were introduced 5 years prior.

This result lead to the new designation of EP/V3A, coming from Electroputere, the original manufacturer and V3A, the model the modernisation was based upon.

These formations appeared in the late 1980s when "urban trains" were found on the Bucharest tram network to carry more passengers around.

Whilst most of these trams were scrapped, a number of them were then turned into service cars, and an example was sent to Timișoara in the hope of being restored (its whereabouts are unknown currently).

At first used as solo trams, between 1961 and 1966 the ITT received a few V12 trailer cars, and between 1965 and 1969 they were retrofitted with pneumatic doors.