Like the guy who stumbles across the line and says "Oh sorry I couldn't make it :)"
It has been said "Mexico Is Ungovernable"
One has to move their butt off of Park Avenue and Mulholland Dr. to see how America really works and people who live in Mexico have to travel to where 90% of the rest of the country is into order to glimpse the infrastructure EMERGENCIES that need to be addressed before cutesy electric cars and smart home environment systems become more than a flash in the pan.
Fully 90% of where I have lived and live DEMANDS rooftop water tanks called tinacas because water is not only intermittent it is only available on sequential days of the weeks. When pressure is cut the pipes suck things inwards. No need to elaborate.
People have tiny refrigerators and tramp back and forth to corner stores. Price of the refrigerator? Partially? Electrical demand? Partially. The majority is a large refrigerator allows a greater amount of food to spoil WHEN not if the power goes out.
If it was a few hundreds of thousands or even a million residents that need basic infrastructure CRITICAL EMERGENCY improvement right now, I would say yes, it is time for Mexico to invest heavily into electric cars. But I am talking about TENS OF MILLIONS of people that need immediate help with basic infrastructure. "Moving Forward" means having water that allows a toilet to flush without ladling it from a barrel beside the toilet. "Moving forward" means having LPG gas delivery not attempting to fill a 10 Kg pot from a plant 50 Km distant. Chopping down a forest is more feasible?
A lot of pollution can be resolved by using LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS in buses and delivery trucks. Rooftop tanks. Care to sell that to city residents? Rural Charge stations for electric cars? The Taqueros will have that tapped inside of 10 days and power cords running over the next hill.
Mexicans are looking ahead. I am looking ahead. I wish I could afford a GOLF CAR for use around the village. But it will have to be satisfied with 42 volts of solar panel charging. CFE would strip and sell my hide in exchange for satisfying my bi-monthly bill.
I look forward to the day when I need not plan my day around how much water is seen in the tinacas. Maybe a thousand liter aljibe underground tank with pump and float control?
My preference is to see this beautiful country -lift up- as one. Indian farmers who plant corn and onions on vertical slopes tied off by ropes and knots not have to struggle with ghastly inferior seeds and no fertilizer. Slash sub poverty existence.
But it would be like someone coming to me and asking "Oooooooo you don't have an electric car yet? Don't eat for 10 years and don't use gasoline and maybe they'll extend the power lines a few kilometers closer".
But in heavy urban areas I jump for joy at the thought the hope that enough forty thousand dollar cars can put a dent in the killer grade smog.
But for the rest of the country, electric cars are like trying to sell a fleeing African native a calculator so he can calculate the speed differential of a nile croc snapping at his heels.
