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Latin American Auto Industry
The case of the disappearing gigafactory
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. In March 2023 Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and the world’s wealthiest individual, announced that his company would build a giant factory there, to produce Tesla EVs for export back to the United States.
- 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