Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! If there’s one mysterious country in South America, it’s Paraguay. Its history is out of the realm of reality. The first country to effectively stabilize in South America after Independence, becoming a “Perpetual Dictatorship” ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Uruguay has consistently been the second most advanced country in Latin America as far as electrification goes, and it has at times competed with Costa Rica for #1. Being a very small market (with ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! EV sales in February grew by 55% year over year in Brazil. The country broke record after record. In 2024, it sold more than 100,000 EVs, making it one of the few countries worldwide ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A few months ago, coming from China, the new N18EV arrived into the Pacific Port of Buenaventura. After clearing all legal hurdles (which took a few weeks), it started its drive towards the Western ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! I know many of our readers are not too fond of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), considering them an inferior solution to purely electric vehicles (BEVs), which, to be fair, they are. But modern PHEVs, with ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After years of EVs being priced well above their thermal competition, the arrival of a veritable armada of competitively priced EVs in Colombia (most, but not all, being Chinese) has resulted in the obvious ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A few months ago, I wrote about a global peak ICEV fleet, and argued that we’re very close to it — perhaps even surpassed it by now. Despite the headline, I stand by that ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Whilst Latin America’s largest vehicle markets have been undergoing significant EV growth (we can already predict Brazil’s plug-in market share will surpass 5% in 2024 and Mexico’s will be above 2%) and several minor ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Colombia’s EV market is booming. As I said a couple months ago, we’re not only seeing significant YoY (year over year) growth (as we are in several other markets, including Costa Rica, Uruguay, Mexico, ... [continued]