Insufficient power generation for electric vehicles in Mexico

The Mexican market is lagging behind in charging and energy infrastructure, despite the increase in demand for electric vehicles, both for light, heavy and passenger vehicles, which is why it requires more charging infrastructure and a project of a nation that facilitates the transition, indicated specialists in the sector.

During the Latam Mobility & Net Zero, Gonzalo Gomez, business development manager of Huawei Digital Power Mexico, assured that year after year the sale of this type of units grows double, so in the next five or six years, the 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 the development of a sufficiently robust public charging network, people do not want to spend eight hours to charge their car,” he described.

For his part, Javier Nova, Leader of Hitachi Energy’s eMobility industrial segment, explained that there is no reliable public infrastructure where someone who is in Mexico City and has to travel to San Luis Potosí and finds charging equipment along the way.

The specialist warned that there is a deficit in electrical energy and how the manufacturing of electric vehicles is going to this day, but there will come a point where the great demand for electrical energy will not be satisfied because there is no comprehensive planning. that already contemplates, at least, including the electrical charging infrastructure, to this day, there is none.

Nova said that greater reinforcement is needed in transmission and distribution. Perhaps in some parts of the country there is enough generation, but a greater investment in transmission would be needed so that that energy from the generation points goes to the users.

In addition, companies that have thought about implementing these electric mobility initiatives are allowed to generate their own electricity. “Today, this issue of Mexican legislation has slowed down a lot because not everyone can generate electricity, expand the range,” he commented after his participation in the conference “Current and future development of charging infrastructure in Mexico.”

In the same forum, Patricia Baires, Latam Business Development Manager at Blink Chargin, commented that infrastructure development must be promoted from 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 for us to understand that it is a collaborative transition where we can all make it available to everyone, so that we learn to share to reach more charging stations,” Baires considered.

He mentioned that Mexico has advanced in the last two years, becoming a power, “it will have an important transition. It is going to have an accelerated pace and we invite you to make a collaborative investment.”