The National Administration of Electric Power Plants and Transmissions (UTE) inaugurated two new loading stations for electric vehicles reaching a total of 232 throughout the entire Uruguay, progress that required an investment of 5.5 million dollars to ensure that there is a charging station every 50 kilometers.
Uruguay It is going through a path of increasingly deep energy transformations, accompanied by different decisions by state companies related to the change of energy sources. One of them is the lower use of fossil fuels. That is why from UTE they invested 5.5 million dollars for a charging point for electric cars every 50 kilometers.
After the inauguration of two new posts in the city of Florida, There are currently 232 charging points in the country throughout 77 towns and cities in the 19 departments of the Uruguay. These points are installed in national routes And in the main cities of the country, of which 50 have the characteristic of being continuous charge, which allows them to charge faster.
Tesla appears in Uruguay
At the beginning of July it was announced that the government was carrying out negotiations with the company Tesla, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, for the manufacturer of electric vehicles to land in Uruguay.
He Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) had a meeting with Tesla representatives and is awaiting a second meeting, they confirmed to scope.com sources from that portfolio. The objective, they explained, is for Uruguay to become the gateway for the US company in the region, which “be a development platform for your operations sale and maintenance.
Sales that are increasing
Uruguay is still in an incipient stage of the electric mobility, but since 2018 —when the first 100% electric vehicles were seen in the national territory— its market share has doubled, year after year. In 2022, with the sale of 1,043 units —twice the number registered in 2021—, they represented 2% of total automotive sales. So far this year, meanwhile, they already represent 3% in a total market that is being “almost traced” to last yearas explained by the manager of the Automotive Trade Association (ACAU), Ignacio Paz.
“The outlook is to wait for this duplication year after yearuntil at some point growth can become even greater, when the infrastructure is adequate and prices are more adjusted, especially at source,” Paz said about the data handled by the ACAU.
Source: Ambito
