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Electric Car Fleets Still a Pipe Dream in Mexico

By MELISSA T. CASTRO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly touted promises that at least 50 percent of Mexico’s automotive factories will be rolling out electric cars by the year 2030. But General Motors’ (GM) Mexico head Francisco Garza is looking at a far more conservative figure, foreseeing just 15 percent of the vehicles produced in the

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Mexico Promotes Fossil Fuels as US Pushes for Clean Energy

By MARK LORENZANA Mexico will allocate 503 billion pesos this year in subsidies to gasoline and domestic electricity — produced with gas and coal — as a key element to combat inflation, Secretary of the Treasury Rogelio Ramírez de la O reported on Monday, Aug. 1. In contrast, the United States is about to embark on an ambitious anti-inflation plan

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AMLO Criticizes US for Preferring Electric Cars

By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in his morning press conference on Monday, June 13, claimed that the price of gasoline is skyrocketing in the United States mainly because the U.S. government has stopped investing in oil due to its preference for electric cars. “The United States has a serious problem because a gallon of gasoline,

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