Electric vehicle conversion

A draft government bill aims to offer incentives to people or businesses that buy electric cars, develop a network of charging stations for the environmentally friendly vehicles and create cutting-edge production units to manufacture them, Kathimerini has learned.

Turkey's car and light commercial vehicle sales decreased 31.88 percent in the first ten months of the current year, the Automotive Distributors' Association said on Nov. 19. 

Turkey's car and light commercial vehicle sales in October surged 127.5% year-on-year, the Automotive Distributors' Association said on Nov. 4. 

Bucharest, Oct 20 /Agerpres/ - The share of green cars in the total sales registered at national level, in the first nine months of the year, stood at 3.7pct, higher than the one recorded in the same period of 2018, while, by volume, sales of green cars reached 4,734 units, compared to 2,927, in 2018, according to the data of the Association of Automobile Makers and Importers (APIA), consulted

Green registration plates for electric cars is "one of the measures the state is proposing to encourage the use of this type of car," bTV reported.

The goal is to reduce pollution. Currently, there are incentives to drive such cars, though not many.

Electric vehicles in Europe will increase dramatically in the coming years. 214 electric vehicle models will be available in the European markets in 2021, up from about 60 in 2018. It is expected that by 2025 there will be over 330 available electric vehicle models .

Our country is among the 28 EU member states that have registered growth in the sale of hybrid cars, according to data from Eurostat and the Association of Automobile Manufacturers Association (ASEA) for 2018.

Greece is among the least prepared European countries to use electric cars, according to a study by a Netherlands-based automobile leasing and fleet management company.

Turkey's car and light commercial vehicle sales in 2018 fell 35 percent year-on-year, according to the Automotive Distributors' Association (ODD).

A total of 66,578 first- and second-hand vehicles were registered in November 2018, the country's statistics authority revealed on Jan. 4.