Iran’s auto production in the first six months of the current calendar year (March 21 – September 22) has grown by 23% year-on-year, according to a recent report by the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade (MIMT).
Iran plans to design and manufacture localized electric vehicles by 2025 in cooperation with knowledge-based companies and domestic auto manufacturing firms, the deputy minister of industry, mine and trade for the general industries said.
Iran’s ministry of industry (MIMT) has launched 15 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the capital Tehran as part of a rapid process to electrify transport in the city.
As much as 537,000 cars has been produced by Iranian carmakers in the first five months of the Iranian calendar year (March 21 – August 22), according to a senior official with the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT).
Underlining Iran’s plan to expedite replacing gasoline-fueled cars with electric cars, Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Abbas Aliabadi said that the scheme is applied to metropolises where the air pollution is high and will then be carried out in smaller cities.
Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development said that Iran plans to revive the production line of two Iranian automakers in Syria, IRNA reported.
Iran’s second largest car manufacturing company "SAIPA" has forwarded another batch of its high-quality cars to Venezuela under an automotive export and joint manufacturing deal signed between the two countries in June.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has banned imposition of higher prices on assembled cars.
Iranian domestic tire manufacturing companies produced 65,353 tons of tires in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 21), IRNA reported.
Iran’s top legislative body has approved a parliament law that allows unlimited imports of brand-new and second-hand cars into the country amid efforts by the government to contain rampant prices of the domestically-produced cars.