Specialized labor, energy efficiency, planning and infrastructure are part of the solutions required for electromobility in the country to increase the use of electric vehicles, industry experts agreed.
Edgar Moreno, co-founder of CeNeutral, emphasized the importance of charging infrastructure, since the great challenge in the future of mobility and the massification of electric transport is the increase in the transmission capacities of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) .
He added that there is also the challenge of electricity availability , as well as ensuring that companies installing chargers meet the highest standards of quality and safety for both the network and users.
“There are great opportunities for quality infrastructure in regulatory terms, that is, for authorities and regulators to begin to build a regulatory framework that guarantees this quality and that there are training standards so that Mexican technicians and electricians are at the forefront of these new requirements and demands,” he said at the panel Energy Transition and Sustainable Mobility: Solutions from the electrical sector and charging infrastructure , at Latam Mobility & Net Zero Mexico 2024.
For his part, Lorenzo Ortego, general director of Voltway , commented that the energy demand requirements that Mexico will have in the coming years and that are reflected in the National Electric System Development Program (Prodesen) until 2038, not only come from electromobility, but the demand for nearshoring or data centers with large energy consumption are also very important variables.
“Based on these segments and based on official sources such as Prodesen, which tells us that by 2038 there will be six million electric vehicles in the country and that it will be approximately 3.6% of the national energy demand, we did the exercise of dividing it and approximately 90% will be cars for private and fleet use and the majority will be for residential charging, I mean that we have a very important area of opportunity and that greatly affects being able to reach all areas of the country,” he explained.
Sebastián Luque, CEO of Enerlink, said that there are several technical challenges for the development of fast charging infrastructure, as well as regulatory issues, generating incentives and clear rules.
Isabel Miranda, head of marketing and sales at Enel X México , commented that the current priority is the supply of energy, infrastructure and electric chargers.
“Then comes the operation and monitoring, now visualizing electrical data gives us that watershed towards where we are going to do the 360 analysis with those steps,” he said.
He explained that continuing to work with the public and private sectors will strengthen the network and there will be charging hubs .
Alonso Romero, Deputy Director of Commercial Strategy at CFE, said that the electrical infrastructure is the most important point , the expansion of transmission networks, transformers or medium voltage distribution networks.
“While we have to expand the grid, we must also remember that the issue of the electrical grid is not only affected by the increase in costs of the grid or the issue of electric vehicles, it ends up affecting the entire electrical system and that can cause us a problem of increased costs, if we do it in a disorderly manner,” he said.
They are already working with various local and state public transport institutions to plan the change and electrification, without the requirements being greater than the project.
He assured that the CFE has supported electromobility in the country since 2016 with the installation of the second meter for electric car users, as well as the Special Program for Electromobility where 100 electric charging stations were installed in the country.
“Now what is being planned and we see a great opportunity and seeing other experiences such as the Chinese one in the electrification of transport, we see that the Commission can promote the electrification of roads, that is why we have a road corridor strategy, there are about 10 thousand kilometers of roads between now and 2030, about 250 charging points divided into three phases and the issue of public transport,” he commented.
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