The coronavirus pandemic has further increased the craving for clean air, a situation that will greatly accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), Turkey’s Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Association (TEHAD) head said Monday.
“The pandemic has triggered a serious process of change for states,” Berkan Bayram said.
The burgeoning EV industry in Turkey needs a strong infrastructure and a supportive customer scheme to increase 100% electric-powered cars from their modest number of 2,500 in use between 2011 and 2020, Bayram told Anadolu Agency (AA).
Sales of electric cars worldwide, which accounted for 2.6% of global car sales and about 1% of global car stocks in 2019, reached 2.1 million in 2019, boosting the total electric car stocks to 7.2 million, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Global EV Outlook 2020 report released in mid-2020.
Turkey saw an increase in the number of hybrid vehicles, which combine a gasoline or diesel engine with an electric motor, to 22,722 by the end of 2020.
