On June 17 of last year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced, within the framework of the Forum of the Main Economies on Energy and Climate, that Mexico would join the international objective that the 50% of vehicle production is zero polluting emissions by 2030.
At that time, the Mexican Association of the Automotive Industry (AMIA) indicated that in order to achieve this goal, urgent actions would be necessary in the matter, as well as a comprehensive plan by the Government that contemplated incentives for both assembly companies and the local market.
After the meeting with Ebrard at the beginning of the month, Odracir Barquera, incoming general director of AMIA, says that the new technologies in terms of mobility not only contemplate lithium batteriesif not also alternatives such as hydrogen and hybrid vehicles, so the study to be published It will cover more edges compared to that of the dependency.
“The study of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a first approach, let’s say, but it still there is much more that has to be reviewed in detail. In fact, as an industry we are preparing our own study to see where we are going to have to move as Mexico in this historic transformation of the automotive industry ”, he points out.
Achieve that half of the production of vehicles in Mexico is zero emissions still looks complicated. At the end of last year, 3,308,346 units were assembled, of which only 79,228 were electricaccording to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
In the country, only the assembly company Ford in Cuautitlán, State of Mexico, produces the Mustang Mach-E and JAC in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, the electric versions of the 10X, J7, Sei 4, Sunray and X350. With that, they barely represented 2.4% of the total of the units assembled in the country.
Alberto Bustamante, general director of the National Auto Parts Industry, affirms that some efforts have been made by the Government in terms of electrification, such as the document presented by Foreign Minister Ebrard and the Sonora Plan, but concrete actions are still lacking.
“Yes, we must get to the part, perhaps not about tax incentives, but about Other types of incentives, such as free access to parking meters for being zero emissions, access to the second floor, I do not pay boothsa series of recommendations already mentioned to the Chancellor himself and that we hope to work on in the following months for this stage,” he argued at a press conference.