Representatives from the governments of the State of Mexico, Tamaulipas and Puebla discussed the importance of sustainable mobility as a central axis for the country’s development, during the panel Perspectives for Sustainable Mobility in Mexico in the new six-year term, developed within the framework of LATAM Mobility & Net Zero – Mexico 2024 .

In this regard, Ninfa Cantú, Secretary of Economy of Tamaulipas, emphasized the importance of social development through successful mobility policies.

“Sustainable mobility is essential for Mexico’s comprehensive economic and social development, as it is based on three pillars: environmental protection, economic efficiency and social development,” said Cantú.

He stressed that the main challenge lies in proper coordination between the different levels of government and the private sector.

“It is not only the answer to the current pollution challenges we face, but also to the urban congestion that leads to greater stress,” Cantú added.

He also highlighted efforts in Tamaulipas to form integrated regional councils for economic development. “We have seven regions in which all levels of government participate, working towards a common goal: the benefit of everyone in Tamaulipas,” said Cantú.

He also mentioned projects such as the integrated transport system in the south of the state and an electric transport project in Reynosa that will benefit 1.5 million people.

For his part, Daniel Sibaja, Secretary of Mobility of the State of Mexico, acknowledged the challenges that this entity faces in terms of mobility.

“The problem we are facing is that public transport is more expensive and inefficient,” Sibaja said.

The Secretary also stressed the need to invest in mixed projects that include the private sector and the creation of metro routes in the State of Mexico.

“We need to change the way these models operate. A public policy without a budget is a promise,” said Sibaja.

He also mentioned initiatives such as a trust fund for infrastructure and welfare, and projects to improve the regulation and modernization of public transport.

Along the same lines of mobility, María Fernanda García, head of the Puebla Undersecretariat of Mobility and Road Safety, shared the progress and challenges in Puebla . She highlighted that conventional transport in Puebla is 100% concessioned and underlined the importance of comprehensive planning.

“So far, we have not been able to complete a system for planning or digitizing routes. We need this type of planning with private partnerships,” said García.

He also highlighted the importance of focusing on active mobility and promoting local talent.

“The next step would be bike lanes, active mobility and encouraging young people from Puebla and companies that want to participate,” García said.

The panelists made it clear that although there are significant challenges in terms of sustainable mobility in Mexico, there are initiatives and collaborations underway that promise important advances. However, they explained that coordination between governments, the participation of the private sector and the use of emerging technologies are key to transforming mobility in the country during the new administration.

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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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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Q. ROO.- A constant for companies in Mexico that own a cargo fleet and are interested in making the change to “greener” units are the issues of costs and the lack of recharging infrastructure .

This was expressed by attendees at the opening of the 2024 edition of Top Flotillas and LOGEX , when Jorge Jiménez, EV Client Success Lead of Element Fleet , asked about the challenges they currently face in making this transition from units that use fossil fuels to electric or hybrid vehicles.

Most of these attendees are decision makers in matters of purchasing and fleet management in their companies. They have all met in this Caribbean resort to participate in Top Flotillas and LOGEX to engage in one-on-one business meetings with supplier companies, with whom they hope to integrate innovative solutions into their productive activities.

Jorge Jiménez explained that the transport sector is currently responsible for generating at least 17% of the emissions of polluting gases released into the atmosphere, which gives it a high level of responsibility in the search to reduce this impact on the environment.

For now, within the logistics and transportation sector, this transition has been given with a greater push by companies that carry out last-mile product delivery operations , i.e. parcel companies and large package generators in e-commerce, since they have reached a “parity” between the investment in vehicles and the cost of the operation, which even generates profitability for some.

For Element Fleet, a fleet management company, this last mile market already represents 50% of its business, according to Jiménez. The company currently has 140,000 units leased, mainly compact and medium-sized vehicles and, to a lesser extent, heavy units.

Market demand for electric or hybrid units has forced Element Fleet to incorporate up to 40 of these models into its available portfolio, out of the nearly 80 that automakers offer in the country.

“The transition to electric vehicles means supporting our customers from start to finish , always taking into account operational efficiency and energy security,” said Jorge Jiménez, during his participation in the inauguration of Top Flotillas and LOGEX.

The parity that the specialist speaks of is influenced by the reduction in the cost of maintenance of electric and hybrid units , since they have fewer auto parts than an internal combustion unit, which generates savings for companies with large fleets; “in addition to the fact that electricity is subsidized in Mexico,” said Jiménez.

However, the “elephant to conquer” here is the charging infrastructure. In Mexico, there are only three thousand chargers already installed and 80% of them are in private areas.

In addition, a challenge for companies with a charging fleet that are considering incorporating this new technology is the time it takes for suppliers to install the entire charging infrastructure in their operating centers; at least for heavy units, the average time is six or seven months.

“Nobody plans with these times in mind,” Jiménez said. For this reason, he said that the modality that is having the greatest success in this “green” trend is the leasing of units, with the help of companies that support the transition, calculating costs and reviewing issues of incorporation of new electrical infrastructure.

During the first seven months of this year, sales of electric, plug-in and non-plug-in vehicles in Mexico have registered an annual growth of 80%, totaling 65,232 units , according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) .

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The electric transition is no longer an option given the commitments that countries have adopted to minimize their emissions of polluting gases .

Rubén Rock, CEO of Greenspace E-Mobility , a company that seeks to accelerate the electrification of Mexico and Latin America , highlighted in the panel Challenges and solutions for sustainable and impactful electrification in Mexico , that the peak of emissions will be reached in 2028, in where the transportation sector generates around 24% of emissions , so it is imperative to take action.

“Electrification is going to totally change the energy landscape, the transportation landscape, the innovation landscape. “Electrification promises to accelerate the way we manage energy and we hope that by 2030-2050 the world will be totally different to how we know it today,” he said.

However, despite this need, Mexico continues to have areas of opportunity that do not allow progress at the pace at which new clean transportation options should be adopted.

An example, said Erica Valencia, founder and director of Ectagono and who is part of the Steering Committee of the Economic and Environmental Council of Mexico City, is the lack of clean energy in the country , despite the fact that progress has been made in the generation of electrical energy from renewable sources, especially through wind and solar, it cannot be ensured that the energy with which an electric vehicle is charged is clean.

“The issue is, but I’m still polluting, right? Right now the source with which I charge my car is really not renewable and it is a question that is constantly being asked,” she said.

Israel Hurtado, president of the Mexican Hydrogen Association (H2 México) , added that around 80% of the electricity generated in Mexico is with fossil fuels , in addition to the fact that the country does not have a national electric mobility strategy.

Likewise, he indicated that the use of other alternative fuels has not been studied, just as hydrogen needs to be explored within electric mobility.

Israel Hurtado added that the challenges in terms of hydrogen are even deeper, since it is a relatively new technology, the production of green hydrogen needs to be encouraged, and in terms of charging infrastructure for hydrogen vehicles, Mexico is even further behind. .

For his part, Manuel Montes Bertin , senior director of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at DHL Express , indicated that the German company sees its commitment to sustainability from four main pillars : airplanes with alternative fuels, clean buildings, vehicles and that its employees are committed to not polluting.

He added that, for example, in the next two years DHL will launch the first electric plane in the United States for cargo.

The specialists concluded that there must be collaboration between the different public and private actors to accelerate the process, so dialogue must be encouraged about what is slowing down the process.

“One of the main points is public-private collaboration. In how a complement is generated, because what I have also perceived from working with companies is that they have even begun to question withdrawing their fleets or the electricity supply precisely due to a lack of infrastructure or a lack of adoption by the public. before civil society,” said Erica Valencia.

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