By Brazil Stock Guide – A Motiva investment of about R$50 million will replace part of the fleet used across highways and urban rail systems with electric and hybrid vehicles, expanding a decarbonization push as the company adds new concessions.
Motiva Infraestrutura de Mobilidade SA (B3: MOTV3) expects to end 2026 with 125 electrified vehicles in operation, up from just five at the close of 2024. The fleet currently includes 85 electric and hybrid units across the group’s businesses.
The procurement program covers 126 vehicles, including 59 fully electric models and 67 hybrids. Inspection cars, light-duty tow trucks and emergency-response vehicles are among the units being acquired.
Highways Lead the Expansion
Motiva’s highway concessions account for 78 electrified vehicles, the largest share of the group’s low-emission fleet. The rollout includes both established operations and assets recently added to the company’s portfolio.
The group has deployed 19 units in Paraná and seven in the Sorocabana concession in São Paulo state. On the Fernão Dias highway, a section of the BR-381 corridor operated by Motiva Minas-SP since April, the company plans to have 16 electric or hybrid vehicles in service by September.
Motiva also installed an electrified operations base at kilometer 118 of the Anhanguera highway in Nova Odessa, São Paulo. The site includes an electric inspection car, rescue vehicle and light tow truck, as well as charging points.
The fleet expansion is taking place as the company increases its highway footprint through concessions in Paraná, the Sorocaba region and along Fernão Dias.
Electric Vehicles Reach Rail Operations
Motiva has extended the strategy to its urban rail businesses. São Paulo’s Line 4-Yellow received three light electric vehicles for operational activities.
In Bahia, three electric buses have provided transfers between the Airport Station and Salvador’s airport terminal since early 2025. Replacing conventional diesel buses avoided 140 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent during the period, according to company calculations.
Motiva also plans to improve the efficiency of cooling equipment used in its rail operations as part of its broader emissions-reduction program.
Airports Add Electric Buses
The group’s airport platform is also adopting battery-powered vehicles. BH Airport in Confins, Minas Gerais, invested about R$5 million in two electric buses used to transport passengers.
Goiânia Airport uses another electric vehicle for passenger transfers, extending the program across Motiva’s three operating platforms: highways, urban rail systems and airports.
Mobile Combustion Drives Direct Emissions
The fleet overhaul is one of Motiva’s main initiatives to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. Targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative call for a 59% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions and a 27% cut in Scope 3 emissions by 2033.
Motiva said its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions had fallen 61% by the end of 2025 from a 2019 baseline. Direct emissions remain a key challenge because mobile combustion accounts for about 69% of Scope 1 emissions. Fugitive emissions represent an additional 22%.
For vehicles that cannot be replaced by electric models, the company plans to expand the use of lower-carbon fuels.
Motiva’s highway platform recorded an 8% decline in emissions in 2025 compared with 2024. The company linked the result to a combination of decarbonization measures, including the expansion of its electric and hybrid fleet.
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