How fast till the US bans
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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Congratulations to Mexico for becoming an automaking country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Industrial_Ramirez
Mexico has been making automobiles since the 1960's and used to having a booming auto manufacturing sector of their economy, including many foreign automakers having factories there. Ford was building EVs there 10 years ago.
This EV is a very cool development, but Mexico and South America in general already has a history with converting older vehicles to EV standards since most of the country has older vehicles. I am having trouble finding the article from a few years ago, but there was a whole cottage industry dedicated to converting classic cars to EVs down there.
Finally, we've been exporting labor to Mexico for decades to reduce labor costs, most of it in manufacturing. To act like they don't have such industries already flies in the face of the history of American and Mexican industry, and how they're intertwined.
Thanks, I knew they built versions of most vehicles starting in the middle if the last century but I didn't realize that they were building domestically designed and engineered vehicles