https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Mexican-bread-maker-Bimbo-dabbles-in-electric-14840496.php Mexican bread maker Bimbo to dabble in electric vehicle business November 16, 2019 Sergio Chapa
[images / Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V. https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/07/02/17/18621409/4/920x920.jpg Mexican bread maker Grupo Bimbo, a company with strong ties to the Houston area, is dabbling its toe in the electric vehicle business with plans for one of its subsidiaries to make more than 4,000 "green" delivery trucks that will be used on routes south of the border https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/07/02/17/18621410/4/1024x1024.jpg Bimbo's plastics injected molding and specialty metals subsidiary Moldex will make the delivery vehicles at its plant in the Mexico City suburb of Lerma where company engineers have been working on the project for the past seven years https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/07/02/17/18621413/4/1024x1024.jpg Capable of operating six to eight hours when fully charged, Moldex will make 1,000 of the electric-powered delivery trucks per year with Bimbo as its customer. Electric-vehicle charging stations will be installed at more of the break maker's distribution centers ] Loaves of bread. Donuts. Cookies. Spicy tortilla chips. Electric delivery trucks. Mexican bread maker Grupo Bimbo, a company with strong ties to the Houston area, is dabbling its toe in the electric vehicle business with plans for one of its subsidiaries to make more than 4,000 "green" delivery trucks that will be used on routes south of the border. Bimbo has more than 400 electric-powered cargo trucks making emissions-free deliveries in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey but in a statement released earlier this week, the company's deputy general managed Javier Gonzalez-Franco said the bread maker is investing more than $146 million to add 4,000 more of those vehicles over the by end of 2024. "They will operate without leaving a mark on the planet," Gonzalez-Franco said in a statement. Reporter’s Notebook: Mexico ripe for transportation revolution Bimbo's plastics injected molding and specialty metals subsidiary Moldex will make the delivery vehicles at its plant in the Mexico City suburb of Lerma where company engineers have been working on the project for the past seven years. Capable of operating six to eight hours when fully charged, Moldex will make 1,000 of the electric-powered delivery trucks per year with Bimbo as its customer. Electric-vehicle charging stations will be installed at more of the break maker's distribution centers. Smaller than their American counterparts, Bimbo's delivery trucks are lighter weight and travel in more compact areas, making them ideal candidates for the switch to electric vehicles. For the moment, there are no plans to add electric delivery vehicles to routes in the United States but company officials said that a recently signed power purchase agreement means that the delivery trucks in Mexico will run on electricity generated by the Piedra Larga Wind Farm in southern state of Oaxaca. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Mexico City, Grupo Bimbo now operates in more than 32 nations where the company operates 197 plants that employ more than 135,000 people. The bread maker reported more than $15.1 billion of sales in 2018. Long the dominant bread maker in Mexico, Bimbo began to expand in the United States following the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in January 1994. Bimbo bought Fort Worth-based Mrs Baird's Bakeries for $200 million in 1998 and the company bought iconic Illinois sweets maker Sara Lee in a $709 million deal that closed in November 2011 Here in Houston, Bimbo owns a large plant off North Houston Rosslyn and West Little York Roads. [© chron.com] ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=Bimbo&sort=date search evdl on Bimbo ... https://www.google.com/search?q=Grupo+Bimbo ... https://www.google.com/search?q=grupo+bimbo+vehiculos+electricos https://www.bakingbusiness.com/articles/49819-grupo-bimbo-to-expand-sustainable-distribution-fleet-in-mexico Grupo Bimbo to expand sustainable distribution fleet in Mexico 11.15.2019 Moldex, a subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo, has been engineering and producing electric vehicles since 2012 and will be responsible for providing 1,000 units per year over a period of four years, the company said. 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