The Nissan Leaf is set to be the second electric vehicle to go on sale in Malaysia when Edaran Tan Chong Motor (ETCM) launches it in the third quarter of this year. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV is the only EV one can buy for now – the battery-powered small hatchback was launched in March for RM136k.
The network expansion of EV charging stations in KL and other cities will support the launch of the Nissan Leaf, ETCM’s executive director Datuk David Chen told reporters at the launch of another charging station at Bangsar Shopping Centre this morning.
Chen explained that the EV charging stations are initiatives by the private sector to support the government’s efforts to go green, promote sustainable mobility and set up an EV charging infrastructure in Malaysia.
The charging station at BSC – equipped with a General Electric DuraStation level 2 charger – comes after similar facilities were set up at Suria KLCC and Lot 10 as well as Petronas Solaris in Serdang; click here to find out how it works.
We’ve driven the Nissan Leaf, and you can read all about it here. Even better is the insightful and detailed account of Daniel Yap, who was an “ambassador” for the Nissan Leaf pilot program – he drove the EV for six weeks.
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Sorry my Avatar is not coming out today, no idea why. Anyway, only very stupid rich people buy EV cars. Better you buy a Myvi for RM45,000 and the balance you can save for your fuel. Even you drive 30,000 KM per year also, the petrol bill won’t even come to RM5000 per annum. So all this electric nonsense if for rich spoilt people trying to show they care for the earth. Btw, do you to dispose the battery on this car does far more damage to the environment than driving over 250,000KM on a fossil fuel car.
The avatar will only come out when u hit the submit button, so basically there’s no way to know weather the Avatar will fail beforehand to write to say it has fail? And the Avatar is universal, u change it and everywhere else as long as the email is the same the avatar will change no matter how old the comment is. So since I’ve changed my to a black background with eyes looking, all ‘original’ AVH will be changed to this profile pic. And since the others ate workong and yours is not means youre using a different E-mail from me. Great try impostors.
Anyways since I’m already writing, let me put my thoughts down. This car going to be really expensive, even when I factor out the fact that it will be tax-cut. And petrol prices in Malaysia is to low to make a real saving buying and EV. Lastly, there aren’t enough charging station around KL, let alone Malaysia, to justify driving an EV. So basically there like the guy who couldn’t thought up a original username here, there is not much reason to justify buying an EV unless you are madly Eco-cautious. But nevertheless, like the I-MIEV I will salute to whoever that buys it, for trying to be different and making a change.
Why MyVI? buy a 4th hand datsun 120Y ….saves more…so immature to use economics in preserving the Earth. I am not sure if you are living in Klang Valley….the air quality very bad. can sense it by flash flood and irregularities in weather. The termperature is hotter than it used to be..thanks to CO2 you wise man.
Are you still living in a cave? Do you actually know any facts about EVs at all? Seems like you have absolutely NO knowledge about EVs. For your information EVs are not just bought by ‘stupid rich people’, wise people also buy EVs. Why? Answer is simple, it is literally more superior than a gasoline engine for a fact. It is by far more efficient, much better performance to the point that it’s powerband can be seen as perfection, and it is much more advanced technologically. I advise you google electric motors in comparison to gasoline engines. Now I would like to come to the charging station issue, again get your facts right before your preach, modern EV cars requires only a regular power outlet to charge therefore you can stop by pretty much any building which most likely will have some power outlets. Know your facts, don’t be an ignorant fool, crawl out of that cave.
I`m sure they`re not targeting the people who prefers MYVI, and don`t know what EV is. Maybe they`re thinking of rich-people-with-environmental-conscious. Just my 5 cents.
199k, bettter launch next year Q3
Wut ? I thought its on sale already, saw 2 of these in my neighborhood..
If i drive this car out of KL, i cannot drive it back already because i cant find charge station
80 or more litre fuel tank is better than 50-litre one, which in turn is better than anything that needs our attention daily. This is the current situation.
FINALLY……….!!
How about the most important thing, the estimated price? If they can keep it near the price range of the i-MiEV it can beat it for sure since it’s bigger and range of driving is longer with a bigger battery….
where is proton EV? stranded with their so called UK tech partner already?
what partner? more of a robber to me. hahaha…
Why so hard to price this car?
Difficult to price it competetively at the moment because of the low volume and expensive technology esp on the battery cost.. Just like the conventional car those day, when it was newly launched, the price is also high. Only when there are mass volume production, the production unit cost can be lower down. It is purely a supply-demand economy.. :-)
the leaf can be charged ac and dc.
means you can charge it anywhere. an AC charger is included in every car. but its slow (i.e. >8 hours)
so means its enough for city drive.
the chargers around kl is still based on AC slow charger – in tanchong showroom, klcc, and now bangsar (panasonic, general electric). they shd take about 3-4 hours to charge.
the real charger is DC Chademo standard. these should charge up in 15-30 minutes. trying to educate tanchong on this matter for sometime!
why dont you educate yourself the constraints of power supply for all charging stations are DC chademo in 1 cluster.
RM136 k.. LoL. There’s so many EV cars out there and this is what you people bring in at this price. Seriously don’t be funny AP holder.