The Long March South: How Chinese Carmakers Are Rewriting the Competitive Map of Latin American Automotive

by Francis Rozange | Jun 3, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

A Port Compound on the Atlantic Tells the New Story The vehicle storage yard at the port of Itajaí, in southern Brazil, has been physically reorganized in the past three years to accommodate a new traffic pattern. The original equipment manufacturer compounds that...

The Country That Runs on Gas: How Argentina Built One of the World’s Largest CNG Fleets and Why It Slows the Electric Transition

by Francis Rozange | Jun 1, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

A Pump Outside Buenos Aires That Tells the Whole Story On any morning at a service station in Lomas de Zamora, the line of vehicles waiting for compressed natural gas can stretch around the block. The fleet is varied. Yellow taxis idle behind delivery vans, family...

The Salt Flat That Holds the World’s Battery: How Bolivia’s Vast Lithium Reserves Remain Locked Outside the Global EV Supply Chain

by Francis Rozange | May 30, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

A Geography That Was Never Supposed to Matter The Salar de Uyuni in southwestern Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat, a high-altitude expanse roughly the size of Jamaica, set at 3,656 meters above sea level on the Andean plateau. For most of the twentieth...

The Mercosur Reflex: How Brazilian Auto Exports to Argentina Surged 156 Percent and What That Reveals About Regional Trade

by Francis Rozange | Apr 23, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

The Mercosur Reflex: How Brazilian Auto Exports to Argentina Surged 156 Percent and What That Reveals About Regional Trade A Trade Relationship That Defines an Industry Brazilian automotive exports to Argentina grew by more than 156 percent year-on-year through the...

The Long Highway South: How Patagonian Adventure Tourism Became a Distinctive Mobility Market

by Francis Rozange | Apr 23, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research, Recreational vehicles

The Long Highway South: How Patagonian Adventure Tourism Became a Distinctive Mobility Market Two Roads That Define a Continent’s End The Carretera Austral on the Chilean side and the Ruta 40 on the Argentine side together trace the spine of Patagonia, running...

The Quiet Champion: How Uruguay Built Latin America’s Most Renewable Power Grid and Became the Region’s Unlikely EV Leader

by Francis Rozange | Apr 23, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

The Quiet Champion: How Uruguay Built Latin America’s Most Renewable Power Grid and Became the Region’s Unlikely EV Leader A Small Country Setting a Large Example Uruguay has a population of roughly three and a half million, an automotive market that...