Navistar announced that it will start producing electric trucks from its plant located in the municipality of Escobedo, Nuevo León, which is the largest globally.

For this expansion, the American firm has invested $39 million dollars in the last three years, adding a total of $462 million since its arrival in the state in 1998 and with which, 750 new jobs will be created, which are added to the 6,200 that the company already offers.

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After taking a tour of the plant's facilities to learn about the process of the electric tractor, Governor Samuel Alejandro García Sepúlveda said that they will continue to promote strategies that project Nuevo León as a sustainable state, to generate jobs and foreign investment.

“The new Nuevo León is green, it is avant-garde, it is sustainable, it is a new Nuevo León connected and of the world, it is international and we are always looking for the best quality indices, looking for the best policies and always being an example at the national level,” he said. .

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The State Secretary of Economy, Iván Rivas, stated that Nuevo León is becoming a hub for electric and autonomous mobility in the region, backed by its excellent geographical position, which allows companies to export more than 90% of their production to the United States. United States, Canada, and Latin America, he explained.

It should be noted that with more than a thousand suppliers, approximately 35% of its production chain is installed in Mexico. In addition, from the plant in the municipality of Escobedo, the market of the American continent is supplied.

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