These were only imported vehicles, however, and were not great in number, as Timisoara still operated trams made from the pre-WW2 era.

Between 1965 and 1967 the transport executive considered introducing a series of articulated tramcars, named TA-65, but this plan was soon abandoned due to engineering challenges related to the radius of the curves.

In 1974 the manufacturing passed from using Kiepe Electric combined power handles to locally made Eltim ones.

In 1977 production was transferred to Electrometal Timișoara after the Transport Executive's ownership of the tramcar factory was revoked.

In 1982 a major facelift is added to the base model and at around the same time, an articulated prototype, named Eltim V2(C) was produced.

Starting with 1985 it entered in severe competition with the articulated V2A and V3A trams made by the Bucharest Transport Executive's Main Workshops.

The last town that retired these passenger cars was Cluj, in August 2011, thus ending the era of Romanian-made tramcars from the communist times.

However once with the arrival of second-hand trams from Germany (from Bremen, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt a.M., Munich and Düsseldorf), withdrawnals began, being finalised around 2005.

Arad and Iași were the most affected by this decision, because they still needed a modern tram to replace the older ones (the towns were importing Tatras since 1974 and 1978 respectively).

While the Timiș 2 trams were successful from the early years, they entered a fierce competition with Bucharest's V2A and V3A articulated tramcars.

Here is the list of liveries: After retirement, many units were scrapped, but some escaped the way leading to the cutting torch and old metal, being turned into work trams.