Togg to reveal serial electric sedan by end of 2024

Turkish electric car manufacturer Togg plans to start series production of its second model in 2025 and begin exporting its vehicles to Europe. According to Turkey's Minister of Industry and Technology Fatih Kacır, the second Togg model will be a saloon, which will be unveiled at the end of 2024 and go into series production in 2025.

The minister said this on the private broadcaster Haber Global. Togg had already presented the concept of a saloon at the beginning of 2022. Following the launch of the model, Togg is planning three further models: a hatchback model in the C-segment, a B-SUV and a van. Togg’s debut model, the T10X SUV, is already on the domestic market. Deliveries have been running since April 2023.

According to Kacır, one million units of the five electric models are to be produced by 2030. According to the Minister of Industry and Technology, more than 15,000 T10Xs are currently on the roads in Turkey. By the end of this year, this figure is expected to rise to around 20,000. The mid-range SUV will be produced at the Togg plant in the northwestern province of Bursa. The current production capacity is expected to be 100,000 vehicles per year, but could reach 175,000 in the final expansion stage.

Togg is cooperating with Chinese cell manufacturer Farasis Energy on batteries. In 2021, the two companies founded the battery joint venture Siro, which had already started test production of batteries in August 2022.

Kacır states that Togg is also expected to start exporting in 2025. The Turkish company had postponed the launch of the T10X outside the domestic market in mid-2023: from the end of 2024 to 2025 or 2026. One reason for the delay is said to be the high demand for the electric SUV in Turkey. In general, Togg does not want to rush into exports.

“We should first demonstrate sustainable success in our own market,” Togg CEO Gürcan Karakas was quoted as saying in the German Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in the middle of the year. Having organised such a market launch “in our home country does not mean that we can do the same in other markets”. Outside of Turkey, Togg initially wants to launch in Scandinavia from 2025. This is the right market “to learn” before Togg turns its attention to Germany and France. “Whether we come a few months earlier or later is not important. The important thing is that we do one thing at a time,” says Karakas.

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