Rubí Sánchez, president of the Iztapalapa Business Association (AEI), asked the mayor of Mexico City to consider it as an option to install the new plant for the manufacturing of Olinia electric vehicles, as is already happening with the assembly of electric cars. Quantum.
Currently, in the area there are companies specialized in the manufacturing of electric vehicles and there is enough space to install a plant of these conditions, good links with educational institutions, a business incubator with excellent results and, above all, qualified labor, according to the businesswoman.
“We are in the best position to provide technology, experience and the supplies needed to manufacture the new Olinia units,” he highlighted.
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He assured that a technological environment has been developed for years so that Iztapalapa can be a good option for the production of electric cars.
In 2020, Roberto Gottfried, CEO and co-founder of Megaflux Electric Drivetrains, and José Carlos Márquez Díaz, CEO of Quantum Motors, began a partnership to build an electric vehicle in a factory in Iztapalapa.
The businessmen’s plan was for Quantum to compete in the electric vehicle market with the American giants Tesla and Lucid Motors, as well as with the rest of the automakers, such as Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors and Ford. All with presence in Mexico.
And that competition would be reflected in the price, since the vehicles would be sold for 6 thousand dollars, within one of the happy neighborhoods of a mayor’s office with constant conflicts and crimes.
“We started working on the (business) alliance in 2020; We created and capitalized the company in 2021, so we hope to produce the first electric vehicles from Iztapalapa for (Mexico and) the world,” Gottfried told Forbes Mexico in early 2022.
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The business leader recalled that according to the most recent official data, Iztapalapa has an Economically Active Population of more than 850 thousand people, the manufacturing industry of the mayor’s office contributes 7 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of Mexico City and its sales international reached 898 million dollars in 2023.
Due to all these conditions and experience that the workers and companies installed in the mayor’s office have, Rubí Sánchez said that the association will seek to establish the necessary contacts with the local and federal authorities so that Iztapalapa is considered a viable option, in addition that there is the necessary connectivity for distribution from the center to various areas of the country.
The business group has insisted that there are abandoned or underused facilities in Iztapalapa, and that they could be rescued to reindustrialize Mexico City with sustainable and high-tech companies, such as Olinia.
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