Mexico reveals the Taruk, the first made-in-Mexico electric bus

Mexico introduced the Taruk connected Tuesday, an electrical autobus that is the nation’s archetypal domestically manufactured electrical conveyance (EV). 

Its sanction means “roadrunner” successful the Indigenous Yaqui language.

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard, right, was connected manus Tuesday to present Mexico’s Taruk, the nation’s archetypal domestically made electrical vehicle. With him is Altagracia Gómez Sierra, manager of Mexico’s Economic Development Advisory Council. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

Fostering businesslike and economically viable projects

The conveyance was developed by the Mexico automaker Dina and the EV conversion steadfast Megaflux, with enactment from the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology (Conacyt) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s School of Engineering. 

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard presented Taruk astatine a property league wherever helium announced the archetypal units volition run successful the larboard metropolis of Ensenada successful Baja California. 

The electrical conveyance has a capableness of 60 passengers, fractional seated and the different fractional standing, Ebrard said.

Coordinator of the Economic Development Advisory Council Altagracia Gómez Sierra, Megaflux CEO Roberto Gottfried, the Mobility Minister Daniel Sibaja and Ensenada’s politician Claudia Agatón besides attended the event.

“It takes months of testing, adjustments, proceedings and error, improving its performance, the fig of kilometers of autonomy, and expanding its ratio compared to immoderate different electrical conveyance successful Asia oregon immoderate different portion of the world,” Ebrard said astatine the event. 

“And the Mexican 1 is better. It’s not conscionable astir supporting Mexican developments but alternatively ensuring that they are businesslike and economically viable.”

The archetypal models of the Taruk EV volition run successful Ensenada, Baja California. (File photo)

The motor was developed successful Iztapalapa, successful the southbound of Mexico City. There are presently nary different EVs with Mexican engines, making the motorboat of the Taruk a technological milestone, said Ebrard. 

Mexico exports implicit 1 cardinal vehicles a twelvemonth to the United States and is the sixth-biggest exporter globally but is not known internationally for its car brands. 

Ebrard awarded the “Made successful Mexico” certification to Taruk, a programme that falls nether President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Plan México nationalist concern inaugural that seeks to turn Mexico’s GDP, supply much jobs and grow underdeveloped and caller industries successful the country.   

Mexico’s abstraction agency, for example, a signatory of NASA’s Artemis Accords, is besides collaborating with the U.S. abstraction bureau connected nanosatellite exertion demonstrators that volition lend to the aboriginal of abstraction exploration.

In 2024, Mexico successfully launched nanorobots to the satellite successful its archetypal lunar ngo — dubbed Proyecto Colmena — from NASA facilities successful Cape Canaveral, Florida. While a malfunction successful the U.S.-built lunar lander carrying the robots prevented a brushed landing connected the moon, the robots did relation correctly successful heavy space, proving the project’s viability.

Mexico is besides making advancement successful the accumulation of vaccines, semiconductors and messenger RNA-based therapies.

“We tin bash thing we acceptable our minds to,” Ebrard said astatine the event.

Economic uncertainty 

Ebrard announced during the lawsuit his plans to question to Washington, D.C. connected Wednesday to proceed economical and commercialized negotiations with the United States.

“We are facing the analyzable contented of what the aboriginal of the narration with the United States volition be, not politically but economically. Mexico exports much than a cardinal vehicles to the United States, and contiguous the treatment is astir what aboriginal that exemplary volition have,” helium said.

The motorboat of Taruk is important fixed the expanding commercialized unit from the U.S., which is threatening to enforce 25 percent tariffs connected Mexican goods starting April 2, Ebrard stressed.

With reports from Expansión and La Jornada