Chile Mulls Ways to Curb Electricity Rate Hikes, Foster EVs After Fuel Price Surge

Customers wait in line to fuel up vehicles at a service station in Santiago on March 24.Photographer: Cristóbal Olivares/Bloomberg

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By Carolina Gonzalez, James Attwood, and Matthew Malinowski

April 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM UTC

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Chile is studying ways to curb electricity rate hikes while promoting electric vehicles, the energy minister said in an interview, two weeks after the new government stoked inflation by delivering the biggest fuel price increases in decades.