A handout photograph taken and released by the Turkish President press service on December 27, 2019 shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivering a speech next to the firsts Turkish made electric cars by the TOGG company, during the launching ceremony in the Gebze district of Kocaeli. PHOTO: AFP
"Today we are witnessing together a historic day when Turkey's 60-year-old dream is coming true," Erdogan told a ceremony in the Kocaeli province in northwestern Turkey.
PHOTO: AFPTurkey has a considerable auto manufacturing sector, but it mostly subsidiaries or partners of international car makers.
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"Turkey has become a country which is not only a market for new technologies but also a country which develops, produces and exports them to the world," he said.
PHOTO: AFPTwo models were unveilled on Thursday, but five are planned with an autonomy of 500 kilometres (300 miles) on a full charge.
Production is expected to get underway in 2022 by a consortium of five Turkish industrial firms dubbed TOGG.
PHOTO: AFPSome 175,000 vehicles are expected to roll off the production line per year at a factory to be built south of Istanbul in the city of Bursa.
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