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Latin American Auto Industry
Brazil: football fields full of cars
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. In four trips in the first half of this year BYD delivered around 22,000 vehicles. Reactions have been somewhat mixed, with many Brazilians cheering what they see as the arrival of a new wave of affordable zero-emission vehicles. However, others expressed fears that cheap imports may end up weakening Brazilian auto production and causing future job losses.
- The motor vehicle revolution
- The global automobile industry
- The global advance of EVs
- China is in the EV driving seat
- Latin America is buying Chinese electric
- Sign of the times: “zero mileage” second hand cars
- The mystery of Chinese car prices
- Improving Chinese safety performance
- Heavy metal options
- Brazil: football fields full of cars
- Brazil weighs up data protection risks
- GM plans to side-step US-China auto rivalry
- Brazil faces labour trouble at Camaçarí
- Dolphin leading the charge in Mexico
- The view from Aguascalientes
- Mexico debates tariffs on Chinese imports
- Liverpool rethinks BYD deal
- The case of the disappearing gigafactory
- What are the ‘Trump tariffs’ for the Latin American auto industry?
- Conclusion