Great news for electric vehicle owners! A new era on the Northern Marmara Motorway

Turkey’s Competition Authority has opened the Kuzey Marmara Otoyolu highway to multiple electric-vehicle charging brands, ending the single-operator arrangement on the route. The decision follows a similar regulatory move on the Istanbul-Izmir Otoyolu, where charging sockets rose from 90 to 750 and the number of brands from 6 to 16. The authority said the change is meant to give operators equal conditions and drivers more choice. It matters because highway charging access is a bottleneck for EV adoption in Turkey, and the ruling signals closer scrutiny of exclusivity in charging-network concessions. Watch for how quickly new brands install chargers on the Kuzey Marmara route and whether the authority applies the same approach to other toll roads.