Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, unveiled Olinia, the nation’s first homegrown electric vehicle. The new EV is set to go on sale in 2027, starting at under $9,000.
Mexico is launching its first domestically made EV: Olinia
“We were told that innovation was reserved for other places, that Mexico was only made for assembly plants, that our role was to receive technology, not develop it; to receive ideas, not create them. But that is false,” Sheinbaum said after presenting the new vehicle on Sunday.
Olinia is the first electric vehicle developed in Mexico, but Sheinbaum promises it’s much more than that.
It was designed and built by the National Technological Institute of Mexico (TecNM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and research centers of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (Secihti), with a little help from the Chinese embassy.
