Kia and Hyundai to build EVs in Mexico

In Oregon, about 50% of electricity is non-GHG generated.

https://www.oregon.gov/energy/energy-oregon/pages/electricity-mix-in-oregon.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B,%2C%20wind%2...

In British Columbia where I live over 90% is non-GHG generated.

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/provincial-territorial-energy-profiles/provincial-territorial-energy-profiles-british-col...

But even where electricity is produced using GHG fuels, a BEV is substantially better for global warming purposes.

Under current conditions, driving an electric car is better for the climate than conventional petrol cars in 95% of the world, the study finds.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/03/30/yes-electric-cars-are-cleaner-even-when-the-power-comes-from-coal/?sh=6f88e6212320

In Oregon for example, driving a Tesla Model 3 produces 80 gms of carbon per mile (including “upstream emissions, i.e., electric power generation). The same car would produce 110 gms per mile as the US average. The Average New Gasoline Vehicle's Total Emissions is a whopping 410 gms per mile.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?year=2023&vehicleId=46206&zipCode=97229&action=bt3

WTF?

Like where you live, and the charging infrastructure close by! if you live in an urban environment that's one thing, but if you don't that's another! Duh!

Charging infrastructure is important, which is why I have this fantasy that AMLO will adopt a long-term perspective on global warming and direct CFE to start building the EV charging infrastructure.

AMLO is in the presidential stage of defining his legacy. So many past presidents have used this phase to enrich themselves. AMLO can use it to benefit future generations.

Like where you live, and the charging infrastructure close by! if you live in an urban environment that's one thing, but if you don't that's another! Duh!

I seem to manage OK having had a BEV in non-urban Cowichan Bay, in non-urban Bowser, and having driven almost 100,000 km since I got it three years ago.

That said, more charging infrastructure would make BEV ownership psychologically easier for many and more practical for ease of driving. It could be nice to not have to do so much route planning.

Nothing is going to change until the relic that is running the country LEAVES! Heck he is still trying to create more of an electric monopoly.

I thought the relic that was running the country lost the election in 2020. Oh wait, you’re not referring to a failed former president, you’re referring to a popular president and a popular government.

57% Portion who say they are somewhat or very satisfied with the job AMLO's done, as of February 2023.

65% Percent of respondents who have a very good or good opinion of Morena, making it the party with the highest favorables by far.

49% of Mexicans polled intend to vote MORENA in 2024 with second-place PAN at 19%.

https://www.as-coa.org/articles/approval-tracker-mexicos-president-amlo

Electricity is a classic example of a monopoly enterprise. From Stanford University…

A natural monopoly exists when average costs continuously fall as the firm gets larger. An electric company is a classic example of a natural monopoly. Once the gargantuan fixed costs involved with power generation and power lines is payed, each additional unit of electricity costs very little; the more units sold, the more the fixed costs can be spread, creating a reasonable price for the consumer. Having two electric companies split electricity production, each with their own power source and power lines would lead to a near doubling of price. Clearly, competition, the flagship of the American economy, is not always the answer.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/corporate-monopolies/benefits_natural.html#:~:text=Natural%20Monopolies,example%20of%20a%20n...

So who do you want having the monopoly?

Carlos Slim?

Some gringo corporation?

Monopolies have weaknesses as well as strengths, but it is better to have a monopoly owned by the people and accountable through an electoral system than one owned by privateers who are accountable only to wealthy blocks of shareholders.

> Mexico happens to be home to the world's largest lithium deposits. AMLO could nationalize that resource and send every Mexican citizen a check.

Mexico is not even in the top 10 countries of lithium deposits.

Mexico happens to be home to the world's largest lithium deposits. AMLO could nationalize that resource and send every Mexican citizen a check. Like they do in Alaska with the oil. I mean isn't that the whole concept of nationalizing a resource, it belongs to all the citizens?

OTOH, we have no real idea what kind of pressure AMLO is under from the big international banks, multi-national corporations and rich-country governments. And China.
Also why climate change will never really get addressed. But we can all drive EVs, install solar panels, recycle and feel like at least we are not making it (much) worse.

Thanks to Art. 27 of the Constitución Mexicana, Mexico doesn't have to nationalize its lithium. It already belongs to the federal government. What AMLO and his government DID nationalize was the mining and exploitation of lithium so that no private enterprise can do so. The entire lithium market in Mexico belongs to the nation.

Senado de México aprueba reforma para nacionalizar la explotación de litio