Iran has plans to produce 5,000 electric and hybrid cars by the end of the calendar year to late March 2025, according to an official with the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT).
Mehrdad Khosravi, the director of MIMT bureau for auto industry, has said that Iran is producing more electric and hybrid cars in an effort to counter the country’s imbalance in gasoline consumption.
He said that Iran has produced some 1,200 hybrid cars in the first five months of the current calendar year (March 21 – August 21), marking a 45% increase compared to figures reported in last year’s corresponding period.
Based on a last year agreement between former minister of industry Abbas Aliabadi and Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani, installation of charging stations for electric cars began in Tehran.
The agreement also included measures to supply some 50,000 electric cars and some 200,000 electric motorbikes to the intracity transportation fleet in the capital Tehran until March 2024.
Under the agreement, charging stations would also be installed along intercity roads connecting Tehran to other neighboring provinces and in other high traffic Iranian provinces like Korasan Razavi Province as well.