First Fully Homegrown Electric Taxis Handed over to Tehran Taxi Organization

A ceremony was held at one of the car companies in Tehran which was attended by Alireza Zakani, the mayor of Tehran, Abbas Aliabadi, the Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade, and some other economic and industrial officials. During the ceremony, the first domestically produced all-electric car in Iran was unveiled.

Also, during the ceremony, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between that auto factory, the Taxi Organization of Tehran Municipality, the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade and as well Tehran Municipality.

Addressing the unveiling ceremony, the industry minister offered congratulations on the joining of the fist home-grown electric cars to the fleet of taxis in Tehran, saying that more auto makers in Iran have launched projects to produce electric cars and offer them to the market and the fleet of taxis in the country.

Aliabadi noted that the fist domestically produced taxis have been handed over to the Tehran Municipality in the first phase, adding that in the next phases, the conditions of the other provinces will be studied by the industry ministry and domestic auto makers in order to produce suitable electric cars for them that match their climatic conditions well.

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