More news from the electric avenue – General Electric and the Naza Group of Companies yesterday hosted the ‘GE-Naza Electric Vehicle Experience’ in KL, bringing together key stakeholders and industry players in the electric vehicle space to discuss EV deployment in the country.
The event, supported by the Malaysian Green Technology Corporation (MGTC), a government agency under the umbrella of the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, saw public and private sector collaboration in discussing ways to promote clean and energy efficient transportation for the country, in line with the National Policy on Green Technology.
There was also a plenary session, and among the topics broached in were EV technology applications, infrastructure requirements as well as incentives, regulations, policies and strategies needed to accelerate the growth of EVs in Malaysia.
Aside from the discussion and debate, there was also a practical application aspect to proceedings, with guests and customers at the event given the opportunity to test drive the Chevrolet Volt, which was also seen on display at the entrance to the seminar area.
The development is an extension of GE and NAZA’s collaboration in the EV space that began last year, when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the two companies.
The MOU provides a platform for both parties to collaborate in joint-lobbying and education to raise public and government awareness, engage in further opportunities such as utilising GE technologies in Naza’s electric vehicle manufacturing line as well as running EV pilot tests in several cities across Malaysia. Will we now see a speeding up of the implentation process?
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awesome gila volt
very good for the environment but costly to run. gov might help but not cost effective in the long run esp the cost of battery…another is the huge investment for the infrastructure e.g. charging outlet to recharge the battery.
Where can we test drive the Volt?
The ball is in MITI’s court to determine the
direction of Msia’s automotive industry.
With Thai and Indo already ahead of us in term of
Foreign investment, its time for MITI to grant
incentives to manaufacturers of fuel efficient
EV/HYBRID/Diesel variants and to relocate here.
Doing away with protection and AP’s
would create some unhappy people but I hope that
MITI will not view this as a stumbling block.
as much as i support the so-called green technology (but i wonder how TNB do that since we are not using nuclear for electric)..
please bring in the better quality of diesel first!!!
Dear Bun,
TNB have enough electricity. Why am i saying that? A question u should ponder..Why development of a new high rise buildings, apartments, offices, shopping complexes in Klang Valley which are so rapidly going on have no issue with limitation on electricity? Installing hundreds of charging stations are equal to erecting a new building. Don’t u think so?
Proton has one fully operational LHD Black Chevrolet Volt they got from USA and one black Leaf and one black Prius. i think they are studying them. good job
but do they know how to copy well?
meniru adalah cara belajar yang berkesan hahaa. didnt you copy your teachers handwriting first before knowing it’s a friggin letter ‘A’? haha
autobot, transform!!! lol
i wonder if it’s sold here how many owners would slap on autobot stickers since it’s one of the autobots in the transformer movies
The faster we use electric auto technology, the earlier we do not have to suffer heats and pollutions. The change may have many implication on both the established capitalist and the complication in establishing changing stations. An the end we will still have to change anywhere. We either leads of loose to follows later. This initiative needs a strong considerate government to start first without due delays as the technology is a sure to fire one! Fossil fuels in dirty and we know mother nature does not want us to cause more trouble. Start implementing it NOW!
Please please please bring it here