GUADALAJARA, JAL.- An uncomfortable truth permeated the specialists’ presentations: Mexico doesn’t lack fuel or technology, what it lacks is order. This idea defined the atmosphere of the panel “Energies that Drive Change: Present and Future” at Expo Transporte ANPACT 2025 , where experts agreed that the energy transition of heavy transport is advancing faster than the decisions needed to manage it.
Miguel Ogazón, technical manager of Engineering at the National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor-Trailer Producers (ANPACT) , made clear the purpose of the meeting: to understand the real status of each energy source (diesel, natural gas, electricity and hydrogen) and to confront the challenges of infrastructure, quality and regulation.
The starkest contrast emerged with diesel. Although it is the most readily available fuel in the country, its quality doesn’t always meet the requirements of modern engines . Andrés Gutiérrez, CEO and co-founder of CIEFSA , explained that the unintentional mixing of ultra-low sulfur diesel with product from refineries that don’t yet comply with that standard is a daily problem.
The lack of tanks and proper separation causes fuel to reach carriers out of specification, a situation that originates in the infrastructure , not in the industry.
Regarding natural gas, Andrés Bayona Insignares, founding partner of Promotora Energética E3, pointed out the enormous gap between the country’s potential and the available infrastructure .
“With only 125 to 130 stations nationwide, growth is possible, but it depends on streamlining permits and processes,” he said.
For him, natural gas is an economical, ecological and safe option, although it requires a minimum network for its adoption in heavy transport to be viable.
Hydrogen revealed another facet of the future. Ysmael Verde, president of the Mexican Hydrogen Society , explained that Mexico possesses privileged conditions for producing green hydrogen , but its progress depends on specialized infrastructure and refueling stations capable of operating at high pressure. Although projects and tests already exist, a framework for scaling up production is lacking.
The most structural reading came from Adolfo Cimadevilla, Director General of Distribution, end uses of electrical energy and social linkage of the Ministry of Energy , who argued that the electricity generation for a gradual transition does exist, but the charging infrastructure is still insufficient for heavy transport.
He stressed that the country must first define what type of electromobility it wants to promote — urban, last mile or long distance — because without that definition any progress will be fragmented.
Throughout the panel, the concept of articulation was repeated like an inevitable echo: regulations that don’t match, infrastructure that doesn’t grow at the necessary pace, and technologies ready without corridors to support them.
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