The International Energy Agency has set a goal of reaching 60% of the electric vehicle market by 2030.
As a part of this roadmap, Mexico has committed to having 50% of its vehicle matrix with zero-emission cars by 2035.
In this regard, the National Auto Parts Industry (INA), the Mexican Automotive Industry Association (AMIA) and the Mexican Association of Automotive Distributors (AMDA) seek to work together to contribute to the development of electric mobility.
The organizations believe that the transition towards electromobility will drive the creation of new jobs in Mexico’s components and automotive sector in the coming years.
José Zozaya, representative of AMIA; Guillermo Rosales of AMDA and Omar Martínez of INA, offered a joint statement on issues related to the energy transition of the automotive fleet.
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Job Growth
In a statement, INA asserted that the country has the capacity to generate the qualified human talent required to meet the industry’s new needs and accelerate the energy transformation of transportation.
“The country is working on updating and creating courses and training for people already working in the sector, as well as educational plans for youth,” said the INA.
In this sense, he recalled that new skills in electromobility are scarce globally, so they represent an important opportunity for Mexico to become a strategic player in this area.
He stressed that this is particularly attractive if it has human capital specialized in areas such as embedded software, systems engineering, cybersecurity and algorithms. As well as in areas such as edge computing, cloud computing, data analysis and artificial intelligence.
For the NAC, the aforementioned skills represent some of the technological needs behind the most recent developments related to this trend and can be learned through ‘reskilling’, i.e. by developing new skills focused on the performance of new functions.
Working Together with Authorities
The automotive sector highlighted the importance of promoting constant dialogue between the Mexican government, automotive associations and companies, universities and research centers.
This, in order to design curricula aligned with the development of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics skills, known as “STEM”, among which programming languages, robotics and data analysis stand out.
According to the INA, the compensation of engineers focused on Research and Development (R&D) is at least 50% higher than that of a manufacturing engineer.
That is why it recommended that these professionals receive additional training to improve their personal skills in the jobs they currently hold.
For its part, the guild foresees a 2.9% increase in the number of people employed in the auto parts industry compared to what was observed in 2022.
With this, the industry would reach a total of 903,000 people, due to the increase in the production of these components, which is forecast to have a value of 112,000 million dollars by the end of 2023, according to INA data.
