Minister Kacır said in his speech at the opening ceremony of the Open Innovation Autonomous Vehicle Development and Testing Platform (OPINA) at Okan University, Bekir Okan Art Culture and Congress Center that the global automotive industry is undergoing great change and change.
Explaining that traditional profit margins such as sales of vehicles and spare parts, after-sales service and insurance services have been replaced by business models based on electric and autonomous vehicles and shared services, Kacır said that the Turkish automotive industry records exports worth $35 million to $700 million and employs almost 500,000 people. He stated that he did.
Emphasizing that the Turkish automotive industry has made this transformation with its strong R&D and innovation ecosystem, skilled workforce, main industry and sub-industry, Kacır pointed out that it is analyzing the current situation in Turkey and the world and disclosing its needs in the field of mobility announced roadmap for vehicle and technology strategy in 2022.
Stating that they have established strategic goals, key policies and projects to facilitate Turkey's adaptation to the transformation in mobility, Kacır said: “We have identified concrete goals in many strategic areas, from the production of electric vehicles and batteries to Charging stations and driverless vehicles.” Development through to test centers. said.
Minister Kacır continued his speech as follows:
“In 2030, we want to increase the market share of electric and rechargeable hybrid vehicles in Turkey to 35 percent and the localization rate in these vehicles to 75 percent. The market leader in Europe and the first in the world in the production of electric, connected vehicles and autonomous light and heavy commercial vehicles. We will be on the 5th. We will make our country one of the regional battery production centers and bases with investments in battery modules and sub-components. We will be among the top 10 companies developing and exporting connected and autonomous vehicle software, particularly cybersecurity, driving safety and driver behavior modeling software. One of the most important traces of our new approach is Togg, our electric and intelligent vehicle, which we introduced on October 29, 2022. Today, more than 27,000 Togg Smart vehicles are on the roads of Turkey, proving what Turkish engineers and technicians can achieve when it comes to mobility.
Kacır emphasized that as Turkey they said: “We are also there” in the new mobility ecosystem with Togg and that they have entered a phase in which they have intensified their work, saying: “We are mobilizing all our resources together.” our ministry and our subsidiaries to make Turkey a global hub for the production of electric, connected, autonomous vehicles and technologies. “We will continue to do that.” said.
Minister Kacır said: “With the technology-oriented Industrial Move program, which focuses on the development and production of high-tech products in Turkey, the development of smart urban electric vehicles for public transportation in this sector and from mass production to “We are supporting 38 investment projects with a total size of over 32 billion lira in ecosystem investments,” he said.
“We are organizing an acceleration program in the areas of electric vehicles and mobility”
Kacır explained that they organized an acceleration program for innovative initiatives in the fields of electric vehicles and mobility in collaboration with Bilişim Vadisi, the center of the new mobility ecosystem in Turkey, and TOGG.
Stating that more than a thousand startups applied for the program, which aims to advance innovative ideas in this sector, Kacır said that more than 120 startups had the opportunity to work with OEMs, suppliers and organizations in the Turkish mobility cluster.
Emphasizing that R&D and innovation competence is the indispensable component of a strong production infrastructure in the automotive industry, Kacır pointed out that they attach importance to combining the academic potential, human resources and infrastructure of universities with the culture of entrepreneurship in order to to develop new solutions through implementation and to carry out qualified R&D studies on mobility vehicles and technologies in the future.
Stating that they have taken steps to strengthen industry-university collaboration, Kacır said that so far they have supported 284 research and development projects in the field of mobility vehicle technologies from 234 technology startups in technoparks.
Pointing out that in the last 22 years with TÜBİTAK scholarship and support programs, Kacır has supported 1129 projects and 2,806 academics in this sector with a total of 5 billion 600 million lira, he concluded his words as follows:
“With the project that we opened today and implemented with a budget of 5 million euros within the framework of our Ministry's Competitive Sectors program supported by the European Union (EU), we have opened a center that will carry out the testing, integration and and provides certification infrastructure. We have opened a center that tests software with virtual simulations. We are quickly carrying out the necessary work to ensure that our center, which provides an innovation platform open to all, receives international accreditation and the required tests are carried out in our country.
With OPINA, we will also launch an intelligent test track for the physical testing of autonomous and connected vehicles in our country in the coming period. I believe that this center will make a significant contribution to the transformation and competitiveness of our country's mobility ecosystem. “It will lead to the emergence of successful initiatives and turcorns in this area in our country.”
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