The Sky Lines of the Andes: How Aerial Cable Cars Became Mass Transit and What That Means for Car Ownership

by Francis Rozange | Jun 11, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

A Cabin Above the Rooftops in La Paz The cable car cabin that lifts off from the lower station at El Alto, in the high plateau above La Paz, takes between two and three minutes to descend the seven hundred meters of vertical drop that separates the upper city from the...

The Fifteen Year Car: How Latin America’s Aging Fleet Built the Region’s Quietly Powerful Gray Aftermarket

by Francis Rozange | Jun 9, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

A Mechanic in a Working-Class Neighborhood On a side street in the periphery of any major Latin American city, between a hardware store and a small bakery, there is almost always a workshop. The doors are open onto the sidewalk, a hydraulic lift sits in the middle of...

The Yellow Giants of the Atacama: How Chile’s Mining Truck Fleets Became a Frontline of the Hydrogen Transition

by Francis Rozange | Jun 7, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research

The Pit That Moves a Mountain Every Day The Escondida copper mine in the Chilean Atacama, the largest copper-producing operation on earth, moves more than three hundred and fifty thousand metric tons of material every twenty-four hours. The vehicles that perform this...

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...