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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By KELIN DILLON After selling off a number of luxury vehicles seized from the hacker organization the Bandidos Revolutions Team in 2019, Mexico’s National Institute to Return the Stolen to the People (Indep) is now facing lawsuits for auctioning off the cars – most of which were made by high-end manufacturers such as Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Mercedes-Benz – without
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Once again, the the very midst of a surge in covid-19 infections, Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum on decreed a series of illogical and impractical restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles for Wednesday, June 8, due to an environmental contingency. With this order, she sent hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents scrambling to get
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Due to extremely high pollution rates in the city — a considerable stretch during the supposed covid-19 lockdown — Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced late Wednesday, Nov. 11, that the capital’s Day-without-a-Car (hoy no circula) program will apply “doubly” on Thursday, Nov. 12, with additional restrictions to help improve air quality. Under these
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XINHUA New vehicles sales in Mexico rose 5.75 percent in August compared to the previous month, climbing for the fourth consecutive month amid the covid-19 pandemic, official figures showed Wednesday, Sept. 2. Sales reached 77,092 units in August, compared to 72,897 in July, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said. Vehicle sales plunged to 34,903 units in April,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First USMCA Investment The Canadian firm Bombardier Recreational Products (BPR) announced on Thursday, July 2, the construction of a plant in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which will build four-wheel-drive vehicles, making it the first investment of the new era of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The announcement was made in Mexico by the Economy Secretariat, claiming that the
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