In a decade the automotive industry in Mexico will be producing electric vehicles
According to the T-MEC, Mexico must have its vehicle fleet made up of 80% hybrid cars, in the next five years, which will serve as a transition to fully electric models.
With the aim of aligning efforts and goals to global trends, which mark the end of the next decade of the production of cars that use gasoline or diesel, the automotive industry in Mexico is in full transition and adaptation of production processes.
In the next five years, any of the brands with a presence in the national territory must be producing hybrid models and within 10 years the total number of vehicles will be electric.
Assembly companies and auto parts manufacturers will have to change their processes for automation and digital systems, so new worker profiles will be required to cover the demand that the 4.0 revolution will require.
According to the T-MEC, Mexico must have its vehicle fleet made up of 80% hybrid cars, in the next five years, which will serve as a transition towards fully electric models.
Medina exemplified that in some assemblers, especially auto parts, on the one hand, they employ 2,500 workers to provide auto parts to the traditional system in the diesel and gasoline engine factory; But when testing another larger warehouse in San Luis Potosí to provide the manufacture of electric cars, they will require around 160 technicians; then “there will come a time when the unions have to see how they are going to do it or what role they are going to play in the future with this Revolution called Artificial Intelligence”.
Likewise, he highlighted that the automotive sector in the Coahuila region represents more than 41% of the investments made in the country during 2021, with an amount of 1,768 million dollars, which generated the creation of 6,425 new jobs. Coahuila is the entity that raised the highest amount over the past year.
Source: Mexicoxport