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June 2012
Work on
TCV’s
Indian JV
to begin soon
Company premieres city-bus Centravel at Busworld
A year and a half ago, a group of
people in Turkey, with rich experi-
ence in the bus industry and strong
technical know-how, came together
to set up a vehicle manufacturing
company. In October 2010, Turk-
ish Commercial Vehicle (TCV) was
established as a company involved
in design and production activities
in the commercial vehicle sector.
Recently, TCV made the world pre-
miere of its first city-bus, the Centra-
vel, at Busworld Turkey.
Originally the team wanted to
develop city-buses for the Turkish
market. After an initial thought of
developing electrical buses, it real-
ised that the market demand for city-
buses was far beyond expectations.
The municipality in Istanbul and
Ankara are the key initial targets for
the Centravel, a low-floor city-bus.
The Istanbul Municipality would be
replacing 2,000 city-buses and 200
private buses in the coming months,
a factor which was decisive in TCV
changing its initial production plans
from electrical to diesel buses.
The first prototype of the Centra-
vel, which was ready in July 2011,
was sent for a one million km du-
rability test. The company was then
ready with the chassis and body-
structure and completed the pre-se-
rial buses and is currently ready for
serial production.
vehicle zone
Mr. Timuçin Bayraktar, General Manager, TCV
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