Good news for owners of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Plus Malaysia announced last week that electric charging facilities are now available at the Ayer Keroh overhead restaurant R&R, south-bound on the North South Highway. The charger, which can be used for free, is located at the car park area near Baskin Robbins. It has been there since March for trials, but is now available for public use.
The ChargEV facility is the first solar-powered EV charging station in Malaysia, which means the juice is 100% from renewable energy. The charger sits in the middle of two parking bays – one side is equipped with a 22 kW AC Type 2 charging socket, and the other with a 50 kW DC Chademo charing nozzle.
This is welcome news, but please be considerate and have proper etiquette when using the shared facility – yes, you’re not the only person needing to juice up. Non EV/PHEV drivers should refrain from parking in the charging bays or blocking the area.
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If PLUS really cared, our tolls will be cheaper. Oooops, now maybe no more tools or cheaper tolls since we have a clean Government now.
Knowing malaysia they wont care at all. They will park as they liked. I saw an non ev Cars parked at the ev charging parking bay at hotel & shopping mall. Like those who love to park at disable parking spot. Mentality still cannot cope with country’s development.
Yup, some green colour MYVI will park there sesuka hati…
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Lost faith in Greentech Malaysia. They do not have any business sense at all and are just simply building charging spots just to “hit quota”.
How many of these charger spots at R&R and Petronas have actually been sufficiently utilised? Charging spots should be at destinations, considering the 2hr charge time to full for most PHEV. Who spends 2hr at a R&R or petrol station?
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Charging spots on hiway is useful for cars like Nissan Leaf that cant reach Ipoh w/o a midway juice up.
Good point on pure EVs, forgot they exists in Malaysia.
@PaulTan, any idea what’s the current percentage mix of pure EVs in Malaysia relative to PHEVs?
Thanks!
What’s the point of charging at the destination when the EV can’t even reach the destination? Charging spots should be both at the destinations AND along the highways.
Fast chargers along the highways (ex. every 100 km) are a must to enable long distance travels. As most PHEV and EV cannot support long distance travels.
What’s the percentage of EVs in the country? And how many people will actually decide to use an EV to travel long distance and factor in hours of charging on their way?
Also, PHEV can just fill up their petrol tanks in a few minutes to get another few hundred KM of distance. I won’t waste my time spending 2 hours to get 20km of highway distance.
Again, would like to see some statistics as to how many hours do these petrol station and R&R charging spots actually get used for.
Concur the 2 above.
And what do you think that Ayer Keroh is not a destination for some others? Come on dude…be selfless.
oh goodie!! 3 weeks ago, only pasang ChaDeMo charger
To reduce Government subsidies on petrol, we should encourage the sale of hybrid or PHEVs. Reduce excise duties, zero SST and encourage (incentives) local car manufacturers to produce them. Also encourage the production/import of solar powered external LED lightings and more incentives to encourage housing to install on-grid/off grid solar system.
Chademo?! Who uses it? It should be type 2 CCS considering Mal common type.