The Chilean Seremi of Energy is promoting an initiative of 1.3 billion pesos for the purchase of electric cabs in Antofagasta and Calama, specifically to obtain 60 cars for the cab service in both cities. All within the framework of the “Mi Taxi Eléctrico Región de Antofagasta” program, aimed at encouraging cab drivers to change…
The Regional Council of La Serena, Chile, approved the acquisition of electric buses for school transportation. These are two units for the commune of La Serena. The president of the Education and Culture Commission of the Regional Council, Juan Barraza, emphasized that this new approval of the purchase of electric buses for student transportation, in…
Chilean authorities launched the “Mi Colectivo Eléctrico O’Higgins” program in Rancagua, with the attendance of regional authorities, leaders and owners of urban and rural buses in the region, together with representatives of private and automotive companies that work with electromobility. More than three billion Chilean pesos were allocated by the O’Higgins Regional Government, headed by…
As part of the GEF7 Electromobility project in Chile, 21 women from the regions of Antofagasta, Maule and Los Lagos completed the free course “Initiation to Electromobility”. The initiative was implemented by the Energy Sustainability Agency, together with Emasa Training Center and the support of the Ministry of Energy. The local newspaper “Termómetro” detailed that…
The University of Chile has opened the call for the International Electromobility Course (CIE), which will be led by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM). According to a review of Revista Chile, the program is aimed at training capabilities in the processes of design, acquisition, maintenance and…
Enel X presented an impressive electric bus that will be used for the free transportation of attendees to the most important tennis event in the country, the ATP Chile Open 2024. The bus will travel to and from the Los Domínicos Metro station. People who take this option will be able to travel in a…
The Minister of Transport and Telecommunications of Chile, Juan Carlos Muñoz, assured that without the technology that China has been developing it would be impossible to be at the forefront of electromobility in Latin America. In an interview with the Xinhua news agency, the official informed that so far the collaboration on electric mobility with…
Through the “My Electric Taxi” program of Chile’s Ministry of Energy, drivers can obtain significant financing for electric vehicles. The Energy Sustainability Agency sponsors this plan that seeks to provide concrete support so that owners of basic cabs and urban buses can change their work vehicles for an electric one, with a co-financing of 12…
The progress towards the electrification of mass transportation is a hot topic in Latin American cities, as a significant number of people move by different means, and was a topic that was addressed in the panel “The Road to Zero Emissions in Public Transportation“, during the meeting “Latam Mobility: ConoSur 2023“, held in the city…
Chile gave another great demonstration of why it is the country with the largest fleet of electric buses outside China, with the incorporation of a fleet of 10 units with high technological standards manufactured by BYD. The great novelty of the vehicles is that they have two floors and will be available from October in…
In line with its strategy of expansion and electrification of the transport sector in Latin America, BYD Auto Chile announced that it is joining the “My Electric Taxi” program, promoted by the Ministry of Energy and implemented by the Energy Sustainability Agency. This initiative aims to encourage cabs and buses to change their internal combustion…
An initiative created six years ago has had an environmental and economic impact in Chile. It is the “Oxygen Route”, a plan that has already visited more than fifty municipalities throughout the country. One of the focuses of the program is to raise awareness in the community about the relevance of green resources in people’s…