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December 21,2020
Major automaker Iran Khodro Company (IKCO) has restarted bus production lines after a long-drawn lull to meet Tehran’s demand for new public transport vehicles.
Mohammad Zali, the CEO of Iran...
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December 19,2020
Major Iranian automaker Iran Khodro (IKCO) has slashed capital flight by $138 million through the localization of vehicle parts in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 20–Nov....
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December 09,2020
Iranian carmakers have implemented a double-pronged strategy to curb their reliance on foreign suppliers: expanding ties with local tech firms and academia, as well as collaborating with armed...
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December 05,2020
Following the reimposition of US sanctions in 2018, almost all foreign automotive partners pulled out of Iran. However, local technology companies gradually stepped in to fill the void.
Most...
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November 28,2020
Iran’s automotive output increased by 16.3% during the eight months to Nov. 20 compared with the year-ago period.
According to data released by Securities and Exchange Organization on Codal.ir,...
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November 25,2020
Iran Standards and Quality Inspection Company has released data on the quality of locally-made cars during the Iranian month ending Oct. 21.
ISQI is a private firm working on contract with...
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November 19,2020
Iran’s major automaker SAIPA is implementing 81 projects to localize high-tech auto parts, hoping to curb the sector’s dependency on foreign suppliers.
The projects have been established in...
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November 07,2020
Iran’s automotive output increased by 13% during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 20-Oct. 21) compared with the year-ago period.
According to data released by Securities...
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October 31,2020
Major local carmaker Iran Khodro (IKCO), in collaboration with Iran Taxi Union, is replacing 40,000 dilapidated taxis with CNG-hybrid vehicles with Euro 4 and Euro 5 standards.
A joint initiative...
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October 26,2020
The state-backed automotive tech localization efforts and the strong role of knowledge-based and technology firms in the past several months have boosted the production rate of Iran Khodro (IKCO...
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October 10,2020
Iran Army Air Force has launched an initiative to strengthen relations with the major automaker SAIPA for sharing technologies, bolstering domestic auto production and reducing foreign dependency...
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October 05,2020
Iran’s automotive output increased by more than 10% during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 20-Sept. 21) compared with the year-ago period.
According to data released by...
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September 30,2020
Major Iranian carmaker Iran Khodro Company (IKCO) has curbed capital flight to the tune of €137 million through the localization of 54 auto parts in the first six months of the current Iranian year...
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September 21,2020
Iran’s automotive output increased by 21% during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 20-Aug. 21) compared to the year-ago period.
According to data released by the Industries...
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September 12,2020
Over 20,700 gasoline-powered public transport and commercial vehicles have so far been converted into compressed natural gas hybrids, as per the nationwide scheme initiated by the National Iranian...
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September 09,2020
Major Iranian automaker SAIPA has signed an agreement with the Iranian Army’s Air Force, based on which the latter’s technologies will be shared with the carmaker.
During a Sunday visit to SAIPA’s...
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August 31,2020
Automaker Iran Khodro (IKCO) and Iran Taxi Union are jointly pushing an initiative to replace 50,000 dilapidated taxis with CNG-hybrids by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2021).
The...
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August 26,2020
The global electric vehicle race has reached Iran, as the domestic engineering and energy giant, MAPNA Group, and major automaker Iran Khodro Company (IKCO) are gearing up to jointly produce EVs....
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August 24,2020
Iran’s automotive output increased by 21% during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 20-August 21) compared to the year-ago period.
According to data released by the Ministry...
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August 19,2020
Iran’s Industries Ministry plans to invest 40 trillion rials ($173.9 million) in a research and development project aimed at localizing key auto parts, a deputy industries minister said.
Mehdi...
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August 17,2020
Iranian auto industries can reduce capital flight by $2 billion, if the government were to support their localization efforts, secretary of Iranian Auto Parts Manufacturers Association says.
Arash...
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August 05,2020
Iran’s auto industry was in a hopeless and failing platform even before Donald Trump imposed tough new economic sanctions in 2018 after getting out of Iran’s historic nuclear agreement.
As...
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August 03,2020
Iran’s major automaker SAIPA and Sharif University of Technology have started collaboration to design and develop electric vehicles.
Late last week, SAIPA’s CEO Seyyed Javad Soleimani conferred...
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July 29,2020
Iran’s automotive output increased by 4.3% during the first four months of the current Iranian year (March 20-July 20) compared with the year-ago period.
According to data released by Securities...
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July 27,2020
Iran’s auto part production sector is having a hard time procuring the raw material and key parts from foreign sources due to the restrictive US sanctions, an industry insider said.
Mohsen...