EV charging firm plans first US-Mexico electric freight route
EV charging infrastructure company Greenspace E-Mobility has announced plans to create the first binational electric freight route between the US and Mexico.
The firm will develop charging infrastructure for EVs between Nueve León and Laredo, Texas, with the aim of connecting “the most reliable electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Latin and North America”.
Investment for the initial phase, which includes charging stations between Monterrey-Laredo and Laredo-Dallas, is estimated above $15m and is expected to take between 18 months to two years.
The company has partnered with Windrose Technology, an electric truck manufacturer with a footprint across the US, China, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Horacio de la Torre, general manager of Greenspace E-Mobility USA said the company will be beginning with the first five units in November.
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“We are investing in the logistical advantages and opportunities of the Nuevo León-Laredo border port and Nuevo León as the backbone of this green electromobility corridor,” De la Torre said. “All of this is not only good for the planet, it’s also a very economically beneficial option for companies that choose to transport their goods using this green freight method.”
The government of Nuevo León is also partnering with the project to help select charging station locations and facilitating logistics.
“With our Nuevo León-Laredo, Texas border as the nexus and epicentre of this, we seek to connect the two most important centres of economic development in Mexico and the US, Monterrey and Dallas, consolidating the Nuevo León-Texas region as the best region for doing business in the Americas,” said Marco González, secretary of regional and agricultural development of Nuevo León.
Similarly, an electric vehicle corridor between Canada and the US was announced in 2023, when the US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg joined the Canadian minister of transport Omar Alghabra, alongside local US governors and mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan, to announce the first binational EV corridor between the two countries. The Canada-US EV corridor is planned to stretch from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Quebec, Canada, tapping into 75,000 miles of alternative fuel corridors in the US, and will feature DC fast chargers approximately every 50 miles.
However, the details for the build-out of the corridor are still very preliminary, with no announced figures on how many charging stations have been installed or are operational. The corridor was agreed during the last US presidential term under Jor Biden, and with US-Canada tensions now escalating due to Trump’s tariffs, on top of his attacks on EV initiatives, it is becoming increasingly unclear how the project is expected to progress.
