{"id":13755,"date":"2022-10-17T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/?p=13755"},"modified":"2022-10-17T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:58:03","slug":"enel-x-hitachi-metrobus-and-government-representatives-from-ecuador-and-mexico-analyze-the-road-to-zero-emissions-in-public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/en\/enel-x-hitachi-metrobus-and-government-representatives-from-ecuador-and-mexico-analyze-the-road-to-zero-emissions-in-public-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Enel X, Hitachi, Metrob\u00fas and Government Representatives from Ecuador and Mexico Analyze the Road to Zero Emissions in Public Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean depend on public transportation for basic commuting and work activities, but with urban growth in the region, the threat of climate change and environmental pollution, business models must be deployed to drive the adoption of new, less polluting modes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this sense, Latam Mobility<\/strong>, the largest community in Latin America linked to sustainable mobility, organized in Mexico City on October 11 and 12 the in-person meeting “Latam Mobility: Mexico 2022<\/strong>“, where the most important companies and regional representatives met to discuss the progress, challenges and prospects of mobility and sustainability in the country and the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the 11th, the panel “The Road to Zero Emissions in Public Transportation<\/strong>” was held, with the presence of Isabel Miranda<\/strong>, Technical Commercial Head of Enel X Mexico<\/strong>; Ana Elisa Torres<\/strong>, Strategic Mobility Management Coordinator in Cuenca<\/strong>, Ecuador<\/strong>; Alejandro Villegas<\/strong>, Planning, Metropolitan Sustainability and Institutional Linkage Director of Semarnat<\/strong>; Rosario Castro<\/strong>, Metrob\u00fas <\/strong>General Director, and Luis Francisco Flores<\/strong>, Hitachi Energy Mexico<\/strong> Country Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The panel was moderated by Jorge Su\u00e1rez<\/strong>, VEMO<\/strong>‘s Commercial Director, who gave important numbers at the beginning: “A 100-passenger bus weighs more or less about 18 to 19 tons, but each year due to its intensive use it generates five times its weight in CO2<\/sub><\/strong>. However, the emissions per passenger are lower, so we must consider strategies in public transport to make transfers sustainable”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Key Point: Sustainability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In relation to the lessons learned in Enel X <\/strong>projects, Isabel Miranda<\/strong> explained that Santiago de Chile<\/strong> and Bogota<\/strong>, Colombia<\/strong>, are the two countries outside China with the greatest electric mobility. “The Chilean capital has 250 electric buses, along with 160 chargers. All this requires technical and financial planning. We have the know-how at the electrical and generation level, and we believe that progress must be made in terms of regulation in Mexico, with incentives, to replicate what has been done in those two cities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Enel X<\/strong> representative explained that for a specialized infrastructure to be sustainable, it requires planning and monitoring of standards. “In Mexico City<\/strong>, to make a competitive layout, it must include not only the recharging or maintenance of buses, but also related to civil and electromechanical works, as well as the electrical design of interconnection to the national grid. It is a coordinated work, almost up to the minute, so that the electrical equipment to be installed in all this infrastructure speaks the same language”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, Miranda emphasized that the company also takes into account other important aspects. “We have a policy that is stop work, which means that if any work is high risk we stop the activity, because for us it is important to avoid unnecessary risks, as we also take into account all environmental standards on the issue of waste from planning, so that such infrastructure is really sustainable<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n