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The Turkish automotive market is present process a change with the dominance of gasoline-powered automobiles coming beneath danger.
The hole between totally electrical and hybrid automobiles bought and gasoline automobiles continued to shut quickly.
From January to March, gross sales of electrical and hybrid automobiles elevated by roughly 90 %, whereas gasoline automobile gross sales declined by 29 %.
Some 93,478 totally electrical and hybrid automobiles had been bought throughout this era, whereas gasoline automobile gross sales had been recorded at 111,053 models.
In the identical interval of 2023, the figures had been 23,544 for totally electrical and hybrid automobiles and 117,650 for gasoline automobiles.
Complete automobile gross sales in Türkiye decreased by 4.1 % within the January-March interval of 2025 in comparison with the identical interval final yr, reaching 223,793 models. Mild industrial automobile gross sales additionally noticed a decline of 15.5 %, totaling 52,491 models.
Earlier than 2022, electrical automobiles accounted for lower than 1 % of complete automobile gross sales; nonetheless, by the top of 2024, they managed to safe a ten % market share, stated İsmail Ergun, basic supervisor of BYD Türkiye.
This transformation within the auto market has been pushed by Turkish customers’ fast adaptation to electrical automobiles and new applied sciences, in addition to their eager curiosity in improvements, in keeping with Ergun.
Ergun forecasts that by the top of 2025, electrical automobiles will account for round 18 % of the market share in Türkiye.
The fast rise of the electrical automobile market is of course paving the best way for an expanded provide chain and the inclusion of recent gamers on this ecosystem, stated Murat Berkel, basic supervisor of Hyundai Motor Türkiye.
“As manufacturers improve their funding within the nation, the manufacturing of electrical automobiles in Türkiye has additionally grow to be a key agenda merchandise,” Berkel famous.
Hyundai Motor Türkiye will start manufacturing a totally electrical mannequin at its İzmit manufacturing unit beginning in 2026, he stated.
