The comment was made by Gastón Diaz Perez, honorary president of the symposium
By Alzira Rodrigues | 8/16/23 | Translated by Jorge Meditsch
Simea’s honorary president, Gastón Diaz Perez, also president and CEO of Robert Bosch Latin America, synthesized the current world debate on decarbonization in one sentence. “There are one-card countries, which can make only one bet. We have all cards, a full deck”.
According to Perez, one of the participants of AEA’s 30th International Automotive Engineering Symposium this Wednesday, 8/16, in São Paulo, there is no better place to talk about sustainable mobility than Brazil.
Mentioning ethanol, the flex fuel engine, biodiesel and clean-source electric energy, the executive foresees the country as one of the world’s main hydrogen producers. “We have a full card deck, and all we must do is to define how we will play. There are no excluding solutions, and we must work in this scenario”.
The same thinking line was presented by the other participants in the symposium opening, including Anfavea’s president, Márcio de Lima Leite, and Sindipeças’ Cláudio Sahad.
“Why not create Brazilian competencies that could be exported?”, questioned Lima Leite. “The ethanol is an exceptional solution. If all flex-fuel vehicles – 80% of our fleet – used ethanol, our country would gave the equivalent of eight million electric vehicles on our streets and roads.
Anfavea’s president defended once more the adoption of measures to raise awareness about the importance of using ethanol for environmental sustainability.
Sindipeças’ president Sahad said Brazil has geographic conditions that favor renewable biofuels and has the world’s cleanest energy matrix:
“We know that diverse technological routes will coexist in the world according to the regions’ particularities, and we can become, in parallel with the development of other technologies, a combustion engine and vehicles producer. We must have a public policy for it, and we are talking with the government about it”.
At the opening also were São Paulo’s executive Economic Development secretary, Juliana Cardoso, and Marlon Arraes, Mining and Energy Ministry’s biofuels director.
The secretary talked about the importance of São Paulo’s government participation with measures aiming the ongoing technological change, mentioning that 23 of the 27 automotive manufacturers in the country are in the state.
Arraes exposed the wide range of alternative solutions available in the country, saying that it will take a long time for the world’s vehicle fleet to become fully electric. “With our biofuel, we can contribute with cheaper decarbonization. We will promote a public consult about biodiesel next month”, he informed.
The Simea 2023 ends this Thursday, 8/17, with a morning panel discussing the future of sustainable mobility and three lectures in the afternoon, followed by a debate about technological trends. The final session will be directed by Marcus Vinicius Aguiar, AEA’s president and Gastón Diaz Perez, Simea 2023’s honorable president.
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