Although Mexico has become a power in the electromobility market, it needs more charging infrastructure and a national project that facilitates the transition, according to experts in the sector.
During the panel Current and future development of charging infrastructure in Mexico within Latam Mobility & Net Zero Mexico 2024, Patricia Baires, Latam Business Development Manager at Blink Charging, stated that infrastructure development must be driven by a national project, in addition to creating collaborative investment schemes.
“It is not necessary for each company to make a specific investment in a certain number of chargers, but rather we must understand that it is a collaborative transition where we can all make them available to everyone, and learn to share in order to reach more charging stations,” he said.
He reiterated that not only private investment is required but also a national project for the government to facilitate the transition.
He said that Mexico has made progress in the last two years, becoming a power , “it will have an important transition. It will have an accelerated pace and we invite you to make a collaborative investment.”
For his part, Gonzalo Gómez Rivera, EV Business Development Manager at Huawei Digital Power Mexico, commented that year after year the sale of this type of units doubles, so in the next five or six years, half of the vehicles sold in the country will be electric.
“We really don’t have the electrical capacity to meet that need and an adequate number of chargers. We need to develop a sufficiently robust public charging network; people don’t want to spend eight hours charging their car,” he said.
Jary Guerra, director of Sales Latin America NA at Autel , mentioned that the growth of the electrical market in the country has been greater than the development of infrastructure, although it is an issue that is recorded at the regional level.
“We have to focus on the infrastructure that will drive the development of vehicles, types and what should be developed, although it has to be public and private,” he said.
He considered that Mexico is a power in electromobility , “although a little slow compared to other countries, but it is on the right path. We want to invest in the country, we believe in its power and we are developing chargers with different connectors for the market.”
Meanwhile, Javier Nova, Industry Segment Leader eMobility at Hitachi Energy, said that in the Mexican market there is a certain lag in the infrastructure of charging and energy, despite the increase in demand for electric vehicles for both light, heavy and passenger vehicles.
“Not because we don’t have the technology, but because when we incorporate electric vehicles we are injecting more load into the grid and we see the need to have a comprehensive planning of the electrical grid. There is no reliable public infrastructure where I can say, I’m in Mexico City and I’m going to go to San Luis Potosí and on the way I find that equipment.”
Regarding the standardization of charging stations, experts agreed that it would currently slow the growth of electric vehicles, but they said that the end user would be the biggest beneficiary.
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