Are electric semi-trailers the future of shipping? This Mexican company thinks so.

The Mexican freight institution Transportes Marva volition soon beryllium utilizing its fleet of electrical semi-trailers to vessel cargo from Monterrey to Texas.

To execute the feat, Marva is moving with its subsidiary institution BY Deléctrico, a distributor for dense work electrical vehicles made by Chinese shaper BYD.

“We person a aviator task successful the works for … the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo route,” Deléctrico manager Lorena Martínez said Thursday.

Speaking astatine the North America Mobility and Net Zero Summit successful Monterrey, Martínez said the extremity is to widen Marva’s extended short-haul routes successful Mexico.

“We are exploring the thought of a hybrid exemplary to usage our electrical fleet for [routes of] 250-300 kilometers,” said Martínez, who is besides the caput of the Electric Mobility bureau of the National Trucking Association (Canacar).

Electric tractor-trailers trim CO2 emissions, and their innovative plan improves roadworthy safety, Martínez said.

Marva boasts 1 of the largest and astir modern fleets successful Mexico, and its car-carrying trailers service the nation’s automotive industry. Subsidiary Deléctrico has 120 electrical tractor-trailers portion besides providing each recharge infrastructure and related facilities.

The company has built charging stations crossed the country — including Mexico City, Puebla, Aguascalientes and Salamanca, Guanajuato — and expects to implicit a caller presumption successful Nuevo Laredo successful April aft which it volition statesman the aviator project.

“This volition let america to marque the circular travel successful electrical [trucks] and upon crossing the borderline into Laredo, Texas, we volition transportation [the cargo] successful cross-dock zones,” Martínez said.

Although initially these transfers volition person to trust connected trucks with interior combustion engines, Martínez said she hopes that electrical vehicles volition go disposable successful these dense logistical centers.

Already, Chinese car shaper BYD has a conveyance that meets each specifications with respect to protocol arsenic good arsenic with the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to the paper El Economista.

By November 2024, Deléctrico had transported 130,000 tonnes of cargo and surpassed 1 cardinal kilometers with its electrical motortruck fleet, frankincense reducing CO2 emissions by 550 tons, according to commercialized mag T21.

In summation to the Nuevo Laredo site, Marva is besides gathering 2 caller charging stations successful Cuernavaca and Guadalajara this year.

With reports from El Economista and T21