The UK government will be spending 30 million pounds (RM170 million) in a program called Plugged-In Places to add thousands of new electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid vehicle charging points around the country. On the overall, UK is spending 400 million pounds to encourage development and manufacturing of ultra-low carbon cars.
Local authorities, businesses, electricity distributors, suppliers and other organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be able to apply for the 30 million pounds in two phases. The applicants will need to show how their plans fit into objectives like improving air quality and encouraging the uptake of electric vehicles.
“The UK can be a world leader in electric and low carbon cars. Our aim is for electric and low carbon cars to be an everyday feature on UK roads in less than five years. There is still a lot of work to be done, however Plugged-In Places is one very significant step to a low carbon future,” said Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis.
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Will our gov consider it after Ghana starts offering grants?
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come on Ck, don't be childish. do you think that leaving a comment here is some kind of race?.. Paultan, you don't have to approve this kind of comment, thus will discourage others to do the same childish act.
anyway, back to the topic. There's limitation on the distance it can travel until next recharge, usually in a range of 200km. thus making it 'uninteresting' to those who came from rural area to work in KL… normal salary-earning guy would need a car that can bring them from home to office and back to kampung once in a while. but as secondary car (for wife or son/daughter in college), it should be ok for travel within the city. the only drawback is the initial price of the car and battery, which is much more expensive than petrol car. and the battery for Prius costs US$3500!
but good thing is, we could travel 1km with just 3sen.
come on m08, dont be to matured. is that comment disturbing u. if dont let them do it. In life we have to be happy and open.
NAP more interested in taking care of AP issues.
Offer lah tax free haven to co's relocating their R&D and manufacturing plants
here. EV is the future in motoring. Vision 2020 …or Vision jaga pocket sendiri !!
hey maybe we'll get something like this! in 100 years time.
As always, we get the new tech hype the last when other countries already moved to something newer and better. Poor us Malaysian. Our G is playing too much political game in every decision they make. Sigh..
Anak Malaysia;
Is there any such thing as being too matured? If there is anything wrong with us, is that we are not matured enough, not only in age but in how we think and converse. Its wasting bandwidth. Being tolerent has little to do with condoning such behavior. Perhaps you didn't grow up using a 2400 baud modem where every 8 bit character counts.
Electric vehicles have been running the streets of UK for a while now. Good that the british government has decided the industry needs a shove in the behind.
And what is Malaysia doing about this with hybrids and EVs?
Sell it at ridiculous prices and expect the rakyat to buy it and the industries players to come here and build their vehicles…..
This is called G….
i am not siding proton on this one. but when government pushes proton for it i am sure everyone will say proton needs government support.
btw, i think the NAP need a serious review, the major problem is when there isn't any car company doing such thing in malaysia. where does the technology goes. all the toyota honda etc are setting plant in thailand now where no one cares about coming here. thanks to the hip-hop government policy.
100% electric is the way to go. if we ran out of petroleum, petrol car can't move. even though electric are mainly generated from fossil (fuel & charcoal) burning now, there's plenty more ways to produce electric to power-up our cars in the future. the fact is, the sun has been bathing us with 1000watt/m2, enough energy for us to use vacuum cleaner for an hour :)
Got. Malaysia will probably give grant. But the grant probably benefit cronies. **ahem**
End of the day, as usual….the project just disappeared, or become cold chicken shit (as oppose to hangat hangat taik ayam)
if in malaysia sure ppl will say wasting tax payer bla.. bla.. bla..
nazri said,
November 20, 2009 @ 1:56 am
if in malaysia sure ppl will say wasting tax payer bla.. bla.. bla..
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It is, if it does directly benefit the people first. Everythign the government does somehow gets siphoned out and the little that the rest of the public sees is nothing compared to the billions wasted.
They can't even get public transportation right. A country that can't get public transportation right would be a laughing stock for others when you suposely attempt to attract hybrid and "green" investments…….
See the irony there?
Got. Malaysia will probably give grant. But the grant probably benefit cronies. **ahem**
End of the day, as usual….the project just disappeared, or become cold chicken shit (as oppose to hangat hangat taik ayam)
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Zain; You're right. The grant will be used up by idots and go to waste. Remember the 50 Mil given to produce some local movies, most was taken and most didn't finish it, because a clause that said if the movie didn't end up in cinema's then u don't have to pay back the G.
Same will happen here too.
I believe most Malaysian (including the government people) does not think open enough to accept such advance development and has no interest to encourage it. The only interest is towards their own benefit (whatever it is).
What we Malaysian prefers is how to become richer and able to afford expensive stuff. I call it advancement in wealth, not advancement in tech.
Even the electricity come from coal and diesel. No green what.
I stay in Bukit Sentosa,Rawang and work somewhere around Bukit Jalil…my daily journey to and from is about 150 – 160 km…so,,,EV travel distance is enough for me…but…i have no money to get EV/hybrid…hehehehhehe….
Use kapchai is faster…ekekekekkek
That's why I think the 'Better Place' concept of a battery switching station is a workable one.
ye la, hentam G, anything G do & not do is always wrong, u're the one who is always right.
Good!.. Lotus should apply some!.
170mil ringgit for UK to deploy and encourage…
already 400mil pounds in total
that is about 2bil ringgit
sadly….2bil ringgit in malaysia is something that drain into corruption.
if it put into good use, we probably starting seeing some pilot EV program in at least klang valley by now
even the moron dep Edu Minister ask us to stop using english in private sector now….
Jadi, saudara-saudari sekalian, henti gunakan bahasa inggeris
Hmm we got ourselfs to blame again for selecting these bunch of idiots to helm. All our country needs is simple things for us simple people, we are not even as demanding as america where the people pick the president. All we want is you to do things our way.
We dont need EVs here, just high quality euro 4 or 5 diesel for cleaner diesel cars as well as the disappearance of the disgraceful brand that has hurt too many malaysian's pocket.
I just wish our road condition and public transport is improved.
"Even the electricity come from coal and diesel. No green what."
Electricity come from building dam which destroyed severely the eco system and some heritage.
Electricity come from Wind turbine, also same destroyed and clear land sometimes will also destroyed flock of migratory birds.
Electricity come from Solar Panel, also come from components to produce these panels might be toxic.
But once all these Infrastructure is out to absorb energy and convert to green engine, it can reduce pollutions. People will have cleaner air and more better environment. Nothing is free it comes with a price.
God has created cause and effect, no effect come before cause.
"When can our gov like them! At least show some intelligence policy.
There are plenty of things Malaysia can do before we even try to hop skip and jump.
Public transportation improvements a significant role in the "greening". However, the government isn't after "green", its after filling thier pockets with money.
Can't implement and control smoaky busses and trucks
Can't get public transportation working properly
Can't bring in accessible "green" fuel (Bioethonal, BioDiesel, clean diesel, etc etc)
Can't reduce taxes on low emmision vehicles.
Can't fix roads so it doesn't gets congested (blocking roads to force people to go through toll roads don't help)
Fix those first before you buy another obsolete submarine.
For example I can commute 300km a day (one way) from Nancy to Paris via TGV. Take 1 hr 30mins. Thier slowest train chugs at 150kmh, the TGV maxes at 320. Jump into the subway, ride for 10 mins and you are 10mins walk to your office.
Malaysia isn't that big. With high speed trains people can live in Ipoh and work in KL. Why drive into the city? Right because local public transportation sucks, look at the mess called the KL LRT system(s)
Why still no high speed trains? thats right, because the powers to be has too much incentives collecting your hard earned cash from tolls.
After all these years of stupid high taxes on cars, where have all the money gone? The monies collected could already build these intrastructure, why need to "privatise" the contracts?
Becoz Proton dont have EV, so gov no plan to push yet. Nuf' said.
what r u guys whinning about?
take it ez man…kekeke
Common, we NEVER developed any auto industry. Why expectation after 25 years? or 51 years?
We are killing competition in closed economy to benefit the pockets of someone. You still believe the G knows how to develop any industry?
It just draining the money to someone else pocket. e.g the lousy parts supplier proton, the food supplier of mas…those suppliers are the money makers. Not the Product owner like Proton or MAS. Still have not figure it out?
Infact, I was told that Proton DID had an EV model years ago…so..? You think Proton wants to starts killing Petronas business while our G claim subsidizing excuses?
jawapan dari seorang pembuat skuter elektrik dan solar kepada saya ialah jpj tidak pernah meluluskan skuter atau motor elektrik untuk berada d jalan raya.ingat tak pasal kereta elektrik tnb. ape cite kereta tu…mungkin mr paul boleh tanya. solarin turtle skuter solat pertama ciptaan anak terengganu tidak dapat berada d jalan raya kerana d halang jpj yang dalam jawapannya kepada saya ialah masih dalam peringkat ujian. skuter tu d kuarkan 2006 skarng 2009…em…proton elektrik ni tak tahulah…harap2 d luluskan dan menanti berita baik daripada jpj yang meluluskan skuter elektrik dan solar untuk berada d jalan raya khususnya solarin turtle
Untuk membalas seruan Wilfred, saya akan cuba menulis dalam seratus peratus bahasa malaysia. Hmm… macam susah gak hehehe
alahai orang malaysia… cakap lebat je. Selalu komplen (adakah perkataan ini dalam kamus bahasa?) nak pakai Toyota murah, Honda murah, BMW murah, kalau dah hebat sangat, cuba kamu semua jadi menteri. Tengok la sama ada kamu semua akan memberi kenikmatan tersebut kepada semua rakyat malaysia. Cuba la mansuhkan cukai-cukai semua, paksa proton bungkus sekali ke. Boleh la rakyat kita ni bermegah dapat kereta jepun dan jerman kan? Lepas tu nak dapat duit berapa sen dari mana? Masih ada duit untuk buat geran macam kerajaan UK ni buat ke? Berbillion-billion pulak tu… itupun, kalau rakyat malaysia ni dah pakai Toyota, dah pakai BMW, Mercedes, Audi semua, ada ke orang nak pakai kereta elektrik macam G-wiz tu? Mitsubishi iMiev kecik cinonet tu?
Amik duit Petronas? Macam tu baik Petronas tukar nama. Diorang tu bukan syarikat minyak, tapi syarikat untuk menampung kehidupan rakyat malaysia untuk bermegah dengan toyota, mercedes dan sebagainya.
lu pikir la sendiri…
kera-jaan kita kutip cukai jalan, toll, eksais, cukai impot dan sebagainya, bukan saja dari industri automotif tetapi juga dari pendapatan cukai dari industri-industri lain serta dari rakyat. kenapa negara ini masih kekurangan duit? manakala negara2 lain yang tiada cukai dan eksais yang setinggi boleh memberi perkhidmatan dan infrastruktur yang moden dan baik kepada rakyat mereka.
bagaimanakah pendapatan cukai dan eksais itu boleh lesap?
lu pikir la sendiri… :-)
squawk, squawk…
Ko nak tak gaji bulanan ko kene 40% cukai? Nak tak bayar RM6 utk seliter minyak? Nak tak bayar gula RM5 sekilo? Nak tak tetiap hari nak masuk KL bayar RM50?
Peliknya Toyota jual vios tin milo lagi mahal dari proton full loaded sanggup bayar… dari perspektif kerajaan, rakyat sanggup berbelanja lebih utk beli keter. Bukan kah itu sumber pendapatan yg adil utk mereka, mementang rakyat kita ni x sanggup byr lebih utk minyak, gula, beras, dan sebagainya? Petronas pun nak syer diorg sendiri utk diorg berkembang seperti syarikat minyak yg lain.
Negara lain yg ko cakap tu… berapa kerat je subsidi kerajaan diorg kasi? Raykat diorg matang, tak dapat subsidi, tak apa. Rakyat kita, hmph…. hampeh.
Macam aku cakap la, kalo boleh rasa diri sendiri hebat sangat, sampaikan org suap banyak mana pun akan tolak, cuba lah gi jadi menteri. Tengoklah sama ada Vios RM40,000 tu akan jadi realiti ke tak……