Chile’s transport sector remains a major and growing source of emissions, driven largely by diesel-powered cars, trucks and buses. Electrifying these fleets is technically feasible, but adoption is still constrained by upfront costs, financing hurdles, and missing charging infrastructure. In the current state of development this mitigation activity aims to address that gap by accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles for cargo and passenger transport through a programme that aggregates projects across fleet owners/operators, vehicle distributors, charging providers, investors, leasing firms, and banks. Many smaller deployments could turn into one scalable mitigation pipeline.

The activity is driven by EnergyLab (programme manager), which coordinates onboarding, eligibility, contracting, and MRV operations, and by participating market actors who deploy vehicles and infrastructure. The core technology is battery-electric mobility. The mitigation activity provides battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) for medium- and heavy-duty cargo and passenger transport, supported by fleet-appropriate charging solutions (e.g., depot charging, opportunity charging, and tailored infrastructure configurations). It uses EnergyLab’s digital MRV system that automates data capture, quality checks, consolidation, and reporting—minimizing administrative friction while producing audit-ready evidence for high-integrity outcomes.

Carbon revenue support through the KliK Foundation is critical because it provides results-based revenue certainty, which helps to lower the incremental cost of EVs for fleet electrification. It contributes to project economics, enables financing for early movers, and reduces perceived risk for lenders and investors. In practice, the KliK Foundation’s contribution helps to remove a key barrier – limited access to affordable capital for commercial EV fleets – by converting verified emission reductions into a predictable value stream.

To ensure the activity is not simply part of Chile’s NDC package, the programme applies additionality and baseline safeguards: it targets voluntary investments not mandated by regulation, uses conservative/dynamic baselines that reflect evolving market penetration, and excludes any vehicle activity that is clearly required under existing public policies or already counted under government measures, like for instance public buses in Chile’s capitol Santiago, ensuring that credited outcomes represent incremental mitigation enabled by the programme.

Environmental benefits:

• Cleaner air and lower emissions: Replacing diesel and gasoline vehicles with electric alternatives reduces GHG emissions as well as local air pollutants such as PM and NOx, improving air quality along routes, depots, and urban/industrial corridors.

• Less noise pollution: Electric vehicles significantly reduce traffic noise, improving comfort for communities and operations near logistics hubs and terminals.

Social/Economic Benefits:

• Affordable clean energy: The operational costs of EVs tends to be lower in comparison to ICE-vehicles.

• Enabling zero-emission services beyond 2030: The programme is designed to support the provision of zero-emission transport services for Chile’s national industry from 2031 onward, contributing to the country’s long-term net-zero commitments and helping private-sector actors decarbonize their logistics and mobility services at scale.

Health benefits: Lower air pollution exposure along dense corridors and near depots, improving respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes.

By accelerating the electrification of medium- and heavy-duty transport in Chile, this mitigation activity supports multiple SDGs beyond SDG 13: it improves local air quality and reduces noise in cities (SDG 3 and SDG 11), stimulates investment in modern charging and fleet-management infrastructure and innovation (SDG 9), strengthens the transition toward cleaner and more efficient energy use in transport (SDG 7), and creates skilled jobs and new service markets (e.g., maintenance, telemetry/MRV, and logistics optimization), contributing to inclusive economic growth (SDG 8).