Mexico Makes Lots of Electric Cars, but Few Mexicans Drive Them

21 Mar 2023 | Abstracted from US News

Besides Tesla's factory plans for the country "General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, BMW and Volkswagen's Audi unit also are producing EVs in Mexico, or plan to. And Mexico also has at least one home-grown EV-maker, the unlisted Zacua...the government wants EVs to account for half of all cars sold domestically by 2030.

"Nearly 1.1 million new cars in total were sold in Mexico last year. Just 5,600 of those were EVs..."

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