Owners of electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles now have additional locations from which to charge their vehicles; BHPetrol now has two new EV charging locations, one at their Kampung Sungai Kayu Ara station in Petaling Jaya (on the approach to the Damansara NKVE toll), and one at Sungai Besi Harmony (after the toll plaza towards Seremban).
In collaboration with First Energy Networks, a fully-owned subsidiary of Tan Chong Group, BHPetrol has installed the charging facilities at a cost of RM40,000 per location, according to BHPetrol. The sole charger unit at each station is a Hager three-phase, 22kW AC charger, which First Energy Networks says will fully charge a Renault Zoe in approximately one hour.
All the user has to do is drive up – or, queue up – to the charging station, and plug in with the vehicle’s own Type 2 charging cable. Use of the facility and its electricity is free of charge, and no card is required for initiation. Availability of the charging facility is subject to the petrol station’s operating hours.
While just one charger per station has been installed at the aforementioned locations, BHPetrol will consider installing more EV chargers in the future should there be sufficient demand.
The charging facility just before the entrance to the North-South Expressway is intended as a top-up opportunity before EV users embark on longer journeys, said Tan Kim Thiam, managing director of BHPetrol. A lounge area will be set up within the station’s retail store, where users of the charging station can wait while their EVs or plug-in hybrids are being topped up at the charger, Tan added.
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Whoever is helming BH petrol is one far looking , intelligent fellow. He /she must also be a very car person to understand about cars and trends and the technicalities.
Nak shopping KLCC. Bolih parking BMW i8 kat BH petrol..Freeeee
Once you occupied that slot, normally how long it takes for other E cars turn.
It depends if the car owner is considerate enough to remove his car upon charged or taking his own sweet time. We know there are many “champions” out there.
Asal ada setarbak, tadak kesah brapa lama.
Gomen should fund this instead of a stupid race track.
Good guy BHP!
Then pipu will says Gov is funding for rich man playtoys. Yeah, we see that coming…
This is no rocket science. The reason they are providing the charging facility for free is because customers would buy items from their BHP shop – this is where BHP reaps in profits. Many are not aware that all the extra stuff other than fuel in a fueling station actually brings in a lot of profits ;)
Here is something to think about. Put a countdown timer on the charging station so others can see how long more to wait for their turn… something like the ones you have for traffic lights. Or if they can’t find the time required, put how long has it been charging.
GreenTech has a partnership with Petronas to deploy 66 ChargEV charging stations at its Petronas service stations across the Peninsular. The first oil company in Malaysia to commit to this cause.
its like tenaga nasional encouraging people to use solar
TNB is encouraging to use solar. If you can generate more than you need, they are even willing to buy from you.
yea, but you are not allowed to use solar only…u have to sell back the solar power to them
Well that bunch of millions dollar worth of cars there.
But there is one in Petronas NKVE from subang to exit damansara.
Is it from the same company?
Brillaint bhp keep it up really congrats and appreciate ur efforts
It is funny to see petroleum company support electric car industry by providing charging station at petrol station. Above all that, it is FOC. Reap profit from conventional petrol engine user and give donation to electric car user :D :D
So be smart start driving EV.
1 full charge is 1 hour… if there are 5 cars ahead of me, that’s 5 hours of wait…. thanks but no thanks.
Thank you. Although, in my experience using these charging stations at the present locations are not practical. I would prefer if the stations can be located in shopping malls and other parking places where the driver and passengers can attend to other business while their car batteries are being charged. Who wants to wait around at a petrol station for an hour or more where there is nothing to do?
fully agree. Like what Jeremy Clarkson said, I’m not going to wait 1 hour to charge my car when I can just refuel in 5 minutes.
1 hour wait just to get home from work.
Ngv station pun limited..chit