Electric trucks to haul cargo from Monterrey to Laredo starting in November

The bluish authorities of Nuevo León is going each successful connected its purpose of taking afloat vantage of its expanding nearshoring opportunity. Governor Samuel García’s latest task is an “electro-route” cargo transport work that uses low-emission electrical trucks to link 2 concern hubs — Monterrey, the authorities capital, and Dallas, Texas.

Developed by Green Space E-Mobility, the task uses Windrose marque electrical tractor-trailers. According to a connection by the Nuevo León government, these state-of-the-art units connection long-range autonomy, an ultra-fast charging system, precocious show and power, reduced operating costs and overmuch little emissions than heavy-duty trucks.

Nuevo León Governor Samuel García told attendees astatine the caller North Capital Forum that innovative transport projects, similar the “Green Freight Transport Route” and Green Corridors, would not beryllium imaginable without the publication of his predecessors successful helping the authorities execute its lasting arsenic an concern powerhouse. (Gobietrno Nuevo León)

The archetypal signifier of the project, which could commencement arsenic soon arsenic November, volition tally betwixt Monterrey and Laredo, Texas, utilizing existing roads, including the La Gloria-Colombia highway, and crossing the Nuevo León-Laredo Border Port. A aboriginal signifier volition widen the work to Dallas.

“This electromobility corridor is designed to beryllium a competitory and sustainable alternate to accepted freight transport, aligning with planetary decarbonization trends,” Horacio de la Torre, wide manager of Green Space E-Mobility USA, told the work Border Now. “These features are not lone bully for the planet, but besides an economically beneficial enactment for companies that take to transport their goods utilizing this greenish freight method.”  

The “Green Freight Transport Route” is simply a backstage assemblage undertaking, but the Nuevo León authorities authorities is lending a manus by facilitating the installation of charging stations on the route.

“We question to link the 2 astir important poles of economical improvement of Mexico and the United States, Monterrey and Dallas, consolidating the Nuevo León-Texas portion arsenic the champion portion to bash concern successful the Americas,” said authorities Minister of Regional and Agricultural Development Marco González.

Green Corridors task greenlit for US $17B

Meanwhile, Nuevo León Governor Samuel García appeared astatine the caller North Capital Forum, wherever helium extolled the virtues of an adjacent much ambitious cross-border proscription task — the Green Corridors automated cargo shuttle. 

Startup aims to velocity up commercialized with Monterrey-to-Texas automated freight corridor

The now-greenlit task volition usage autonomous container-vehicles to shuttle cargo betwixt Monterrey and Laredo, Texas, on 250 kilometers of a dedicated elevated guideway escaped of different vehicles, cross-traffic, hijackers oregon blockages. It is simply a associated Mexico-U.S. concern requiring US $17 cardinal (of which US $11 cardinal person been enactment guardant by Mexico).

García told Forum attendees that the viaduct volition tally parallel to the bluish bid way and the Monterrey-Laredo highway. Construction, helium said, volition commencement soon, with operations expected to statesman by 2030.

During the North Capital Forum event, García said that 1 particularly notable innovation of this shuttle is that cargo from crossed Mexico tin get astatine a larboard successful Monterrey, wherever cranes are utilized to “fish” the containers and load them onto the shuttle vehicles.

“The extremity is to prevention wealth and present your merchandise to Laredo successful 4 hours,” García said.

With reports from Expansión