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Automotive Exports September 2023

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Togg delivers more than 2,000 cars<br />

The number of Togg vehicles on Türkiye’s roads has exceeded<br />

2,000, Technology and Industry Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır has<br />

said. Türkiye’s first indigenous electric carmaker delivered more<br />

cars in the first half of August than it did in the whole of July, Kacır<br />

wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.<br />

“The production [of Togg cars] will accelerate. The target is to<br />

manufacture a total of 28,000 Togg T10X model vehicles by the end<br />

of the year,” the minister said.<br />

Kacır, together with Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek,<br />

visited the carmaker’s production and innovation campus on Aug. 17.<br />

“The target is to become a global power,” Kacır wrote on X.<br />

Between Aug. 1 and 18, Togg delivered a total of 909 T10X model<br />

cars to customers, while July deliveries were 627.<br />

Until mid-Aug, the company delivered 2,344 vehicles.<br />

Pre-orders for the Togg T10X were taken online from March 16 to<br />

27, and some 177,000 vehicles were sold online. The first buyers of<br />

Togg’s EV model T10 were selected through a digital draw.<br />

In his remarks in July, Kacır said that Togg will produce a total of 1<br />

million vehicles by 2032.<br />

Some 97 percent of those vehicles will be sold to consumers,<br />

while the public institutions will buy the remaining 3 percent, the<br />

minister said at that time.<br />

Kacır also announced that Togg will introduce a new Sedan model<br />

to the market toward the end of 2024.<br />

Türkiye’s electric vehicle market has been growing fast.<br />

In the first seven months of <strong>2023</strong>, electric vehicle sales leaped<br />

nearly 584 percent from a year ago to 17,307, accounting for 3.4<br />

percent of all vehicle sales in the country.<br />

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