The government met one of the management objectives, of having an element of this type every 50 kilometers.
UTE managed to meet the milestone of installing 300 electric chargers on national routes, during an event in Trinity, Flowers, where the president Luis Lacalle Pou He stressed that it is a state policy that has Uruguay as a reference in sustainable matters.
The president valued that in the country 98% of the energy is generated from renewable sources, which places the country in a prominent place worldwide, while he pointed out that “the electric mobility “It favors better care of the environment, an issue of which greater awareness has been raised.”
“This represents greater sovereignty for the country, since it generates less dependence on other energy sources. A very virtuous process is generated in which the use of clean energy and, at the same time, our own energy come together,” he expressed. Lacalle Pou.
In this way, the government managed to meet one of the management objectives, which was to have a fast electric charger every 50 kilometers.
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Uruguay, the most advanced country in Latin America
The president of UTE, Silvia Emaldi, He stressed that the country is the most advanced of Latin America regarding the extension of electric power on its routes, in line with the data that shows that it is, together with Costa Rica, the country with the highest penetration in the sale of electric cars.
In that sense, he specified that “of the 300 chargers installed, 100 are fast charging, which allows 80% of the accumulation to be completed in 20 minutes.” Along the same lines, he recalled that last year some 220,000 loads were carried out, which doubles the figure for 2022.
Finally, Emaldi distinguished the capital of Flores as the first smart community, since 100% of their homes have smart meters and the proportion of homes that chose to join the Smart Plan is higher than the national average.
Source: Ambito
