Everyone is getting into the electric vehicle manufacturing business these days. Besides the U.S. and China, EV start-ups are popping up in Australia, Finland, India and Vietnam, just to name a few. One of the newest is in Turkey.

Togg is a new EV OEM headquartered in Gebze, a suburb of Istanbul. The company was founded as a joint venture by five Turkish companies in 2018. (The company’s name is an acronym of Türkiye’nin Otomobili Girişim Grubu, which translates to Turkey’s Automobile Joint Venture Group.) In 2022, Togg opened its first assembly plant in Gemlik, about 80 southeast of Istanbul, next to the company’s subsidiary, Siro, which produces lithium-ion batteries for EVs.