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Latin American Auto Industry

China and the Latin American auto industry
A simplified view of the global automobile industry in 2025 is that at least two revolutions are playing out in tandem over the next few years.... Read More
It is worth setting out some of the quantitative changes that have taken place in recent decades.... Read More
Global electric vehicle (EV) car sales totalled 17m in 2024, showing a blistering pace of growth on the preceding year.... Read More
A recent report published the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) supports the general view that China is now in the forefront of the global EV industry.... Read More
Available statistics point to strong sales of Chinese EVs in Latin America.... Read More
A key issue facing the emerging vehicle transition is how to price new EVs coming onto the market.... Read More
Many industries experience periods of domestic over-production which leads them to dump excess production in export markets, a process widely condemned as a form of unfair competition.... Read More
Western consumer attitudes have often been sceptical of Chinese vehicle brands which are seen to score poorly on vehicle and passenger safety.... Read More
The focus of this report is on China’s battle for market shares and technology in the electric vehicle (EV) segment, which could be described as a ‘downstream’ part of the automobile industry.... Read More
Perhaps symbolising the potential for Chinese EV sales to Brazil, the world’s largest car-carrying ship made its maiden voyage to the Brazilian port of Itajaí in May 2025, carrying the equivalent of 20 football fields’ worth of back-to-back new cars.... Read More
Some analysts worry that the spread of Chinese-made EVs poses a risk to data protection laws such as Europe’s GDPR which sets out data privacy and security standards.... Read More
The surge in sales of Chinese EVs in Brazil is triggering a strategic re-think among some of the incumbent industry players.... Read More
One of the big issues (which as explained below also applies in Mexico) is whether, where, and when the new generation of EV manufacturers will build local plants in Latin America.... Read More
In December 2024, a few weeks before Donald Trump was set to start his second presidential term, Jack Ewing, a New York Times journalist, met Estéban Alegría, a salesman at a recently established BYD dealership in the low-income suburb of Iztapalapa in Mexico City.... Read More
Speaking in June in the state of Aguascalientes, Erika Muñoz Vidrio, president of manufacturing lobby CANACINTRA, recognised that local industrialists and automobile executives were worried by an uncertain trade and tariff environment and by the surge in competition from Chinese-made vehicles.... Read More
Mexico-based automobile plants are worried by the surge in Chinese imports.... Read More
Chinese car companies are experimenting with different approaches to marketing and distribution.... Read More
The promise and peril surrounding parts of the Latin American automobile industry is brought into sharp focus by the story of Tesla’s gigafactory in Santa Catarina, a municipality west of Monterrey in the Mexican state of Nuevo León.... Read More
For multinational companies deciding where to build new plants and access supply chains, tariff levels are a major factor to consider.... Read More
There are at least two ways of assessing the current state of the Latin American automobile industry and of the competitive challenges posed by Chinese companies.... Read More

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