Hola, mi nombre es Andrés Barentin.

"The question now is not if electromobility is going to happen, it´s how fast is this revolution coming."

My role

My role

CharIN Ambassador Chile

Languages I speak

Languages I speak

Spanish, English, and German

My personal interests

My personal interests

New technologies, electromobility, massive clean transportation, renewable energies, nature and the world I’m going to leave to my daughters.

Link to e-mobility

Link to e-mobility

Founder of a company focused in helping fleets to migrate from ICE to EV and charge management since 2016, part of the founding group of AVEC (Chilean Electromobility Association) and part of the founding group of ALAMOS (Latin American Sustainable Mobility Association)

"Let´s transform Latin America in a regional integrated market, with a strong added value ecosystem, instead of a lot of countries doing isolated erforts."

My objectives

  • Help in the delivery of knowledge, standards and experience related to e-mobility in my region, to accelerate the electrification of transportation
  • Help building an added value ecosystem, capable of building (not just integrating) and exporting solutions
  • Fight against climate change, learn a lot and have fun

Introduction to Latin America

The status of e-mobility and EV-charging in my region

Latin America is the place where you can learn about public transportation and fleets, we have 2 of the biggest e-bus projects in the world, also we have some important innovations in the charging depot area… So, lots of experience and some technology to export also.

If we speak about regulation, some countries are advancing fine, while others are a little behind. Focusing on private cars, Latin America is a little behind if we compare ourselves with Europe.

Professional background

A little bit about me and how I got into e-mobility

Being grown up in a small town of the Chilean Patagonia has brought me close to nature and the effects of climate change, and as electronic engineer I’ve always been close to technology. That´s why I’ve always been interested in clean technologies and renewable energies. I started coming to e-mobility in year 2008, when with my team we had to build a charger for a REVAi, then we started to go deeper and helping companies with the support of charging infrastructure, after a while the first e-bus came to Chile and with this I put al in for e-mobility, being part the ecosystem that built the first massive public transportation project in the world outside of China, in year 2017 and 2018.

3 highlights of my career in the e-mobility context
  • Part of the first massive public transportation project in the world outside of China in 2018
  • Past president of AVEC (2021 – 2023) and ALAMOS (2022)
  • Founder of Dhemax, a company with the charge management of more than 1.100 public transportation e-buses in Latin America

Welcome to reach out

Andrés Barentin

CharIN Ambassador Chile

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