{"id":21735,"date":"2026-01-28T05:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/my-tesla-has-become-ordinary-turkey-catches-up-with-eu-in-electric-car-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:37:15","slug":"my-tesla-has-become-ordinary-turkey-catches-up-with-eu-in-electric-car-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/my-tesla-has-become-ordinary-turkey-catches-up-with-eu-in-electric-car-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Tesla has become ordinary\u2019: Turkey catches up with EU in electric car sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popularity of EVs in country is part of global trend of emerging markets spurning fossil fuel cars at surprising speeds<\/p>\n<p>When Berke Astarc\u0131o\u011flu bought a BMW i3 in 2016, he was one of just 44 people in a country of 80 million to buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) that year. By the time he bought a Tesla in 2023, BEVs were no longer a complete oddity in Turkey, making up 7% of new car sales.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward two years and electric cars are selling so fast that Turkey has caught up with the EU in its rate of adoption. Its market is now the fourth largest in Europe, behind Germany, the UK and France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/jan\/28\/turkey-eu-electric-car-sales\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/74469cdd14c0cecd4e1a048bb42e170558b3c586\/314_0_2530_2024\/master\/2530.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cc8e3e43c4da3e0dfa61ac030b96fa09\" title=\"\u2018My Tesla has become ordinary\u2019: Turkey catches up with EU in electric car sales\" \/>Popularity of EVs in country is part of global trend of emerging markets spurning fossil fuel cars at surprising speeds<br \/>\nWhen Berke Astarc\u0131o\u011flu bought a BMW i3 in 2016, he was one of just 44 people in a country of 80 million to buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) that year. By the time he bought a Tesla in 2023, BEVs were no longer a complete oddity in Turkey, making up 7% of new car sales.<br \/>\nFast-forward two years and electric cars are selling so fast that Turkey has caught up with the EU in its rate of adoption. Its market is now the fourth largest in Europe, behind Germany, the UK and France. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popularity of EVs in country is part of global trend of emerging markets spurning fossil fuel cars at surprising speeds When Berke Astarc\u0131o\u011flu bought a BMW i3 in 2016, he was one of just 44 people in a country of 80 million to buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) that year. By the time he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/my-tesla-has-become-ordinary-turkey-catches-up-with-eu-in-electric-car-sales\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018My Tesla has become ordinary\u2019: Turkey catches up with EU in electric car sales<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}