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.
The Iranian private sector automakers have produced nearly 67,000 vehicles in the first three months of the current calendar year (March 21 – June 21), according to a report by IRNA news agency.
Iran produced some 325,000 cars in the first three months of the current calendar year (March 21 – June 21), according to a senior official with the country’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT).
Iran’s second largest carmaker Saipa says its first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) will hit the market in the calendar year to late March 2024.