“When we started, no one believed us”: Bolivia’s Electric Car

Get to know the story and people behind Quantum Motors, the Bolivian company producing Electric Vehicles in Cochabamba. In late September 2019 a story circulated the Bolivian press that caught my eye: electric cars made in Bolivia by Quantum Motors were being stopped and their owners fined because they could not provide the import documents.

The quest to build electric vehicles in Bolivia​

Quantum Motors is trying to bring electric vehicles to Latin America, in the form of tiny electric cars. Its E series, introduced in 2019, were the first cars of any kind to be made in Bolivia. Quantum has been heralded as a symbol of Bolivia’s lithium-powered future. But in a country of big trucks and

Elektroautos aus Bolivien? Das muss ein Witz sein