Enel X Works on Optimizing and Digitizing the Charging Infrastructure in Latin America

Diego Valderrama, representative of Enel X, spoke with the Latam Mobility team to discuss the outlook for electric mobility in Latin America.

“From Enel X, Enel Colombia’s business line, we continue working to promote electric mobility, not only in Colombia but throughout the region,” he stressed.

He detailed that they are currently working on fundamental focuses: Optimization of infrastructure, looking at how the recharging infrastructure already exists today and has been complementing and developing in cities such as Bogota.

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Valderrama explained that they are working on promoting that corporate fleets, both from the private and government sectors, use the infrastructure and that it is increasingly better utilized.

Infrastructure Massification

“It is fundamental how we transfer all this experience we have built in Bogota with public mobility to other cities, seek how we can change that business model,” Valderrama explained.

“It is a challenge how we can transform those solutions with all the learning that has been generated so that smaller cities, intermediate societies can make that transition of their public transport fleets to electric mobility,” he added.

The Enel X executive considers it fundamental to advance in the digitization of the load in these platforms of control and use of the load so that companies and entities that make the decision to make the transformation of their vehicles to electrified units.

“We have to continue working on boosting demand so that the infrastructure is profitable, that promote the transformation of cabs, that promote the transformation of electric buses from the policy or from the private position so that the decision is also made for the transformation of fleets,” Valderrama said.

Spaces such as the Latam Mobility meetings promote the electric mobility ecosystem,” he concluded.