The company’s plant in Puebla, the newest of all Audi globally, It would start with the production of electric cars from 2027. Tarek Mashor, CEO of Audi’s Mexican plant, explained in the middle of last year that for this they will build a “mirror plant” in the 200 hectares available, out of a total of 460 hectares that the land has.
Despite the semiconductor shortage, which has affected most automakers around the world since mid-2021 and continued into the past year, the San José Chiapa plant reached its maximum number of assembled vehicles in 2022 since its start-upclosing the year with 178,000 Q5 units, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography.
Although Agnes Schwägerl, the company’s director of communication, considers that it is still “very early” to talk about local grocery storehighlights that they will place special emphasis on adherence to carbon-free processes.
“The issue of manufacturing electrical equipment is very important to us, but we cannot ignore the decarbonization in our processes and in our value chain, which is what we are seeing with all our suppliers”, he argues, at the request of Expansion.
Since November 2018, Audi began using a production plant at the complex. Inverse osmosis in which the water used in the production halls is treated, thanks to which it achieves a recovery of 93% of the water used in the production process.