The proposed third national car project should focus on developing energy-saving vehicles, says the head of Malaysia’s Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources, Xavier Jayakumar.
In a Bernama report, the minister said fossil fuels would probably last another 25 years, warranting the need to find more sustainable forms of energy and consumption. He cited brands like BMW, Mercedes and Porsche, which have already started pushing into the realms of electrification for future models.
“The way forward is, of course, the electric vehicle (EV) option. The evolution from fossil fuel vehicles to EVs has already begun. At present, while the world continues to watch F1 racing, Formula E- is fast picking up its set of fans. This to me is a viable way for the future. As such, I am sure the benefits of having a third national car will clearly outweigh its drawbacks,” said Jayakumar.
Among the benefits include providing the people with the ability to purchase environmentally-friendly vehicles at more affordable prices thanks to mass production of EVs here. Jayakumar also said such a move would encourage the growth of the Malaysian automotive segment on a wider scope.
“The learning of new technology will spur younger generations to pursue it and Malaysia can make its mark in the automobile segment not only in the region but globally as well. The EV car industry is relatively a new field with Elon Musk’s Tesla leading the way at present,” commented Jayakumar.
“The opportunity to get our youths to jump on board and expand it further is limitless. Let the government move forward with the idea,” he continued. Jayakumar also noted that that prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s intention to introduce a third national car was to boost and spearhead the country’s economy.
Recently, it was reported that two Chinese EV companies were willing to invest up to US$10 billion (RM41 billion) in the project, spread across a five-year period. Other companies from Japan like Toyota and Nissan have also expressed their interest.
As announced by finance minister Lim Guan Eng, a third national car project will be funded by the private sector and not with public funds. “In my opinion, should either deal go through, it could only benefit the country and its people in the long run,” Jayakumar added.
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Meaning: Benefits to their pockets outweigh the drawbacks to the Rakyat. Yeah, we understand.
Rakyat benefited.
https://paultan.org/2016/02/19/kerajaan-bersetuju-pengecualian-cukai-import-ke-atas-100-unit-tesla-model-s-inisiatif-greentech-malaysia/
You mean like this?
[paultan.org/2018/07/19/maa-reiterates-that-car-prices-set-to-increase-with-sst/]
How? Please elaborate.
just rebadge tesla …ok…sell at 99,888. !! tq v v m
Are electricity power plants also moving away from fossil fuels or coal?
It is me or politicians becomes dumber when they got power like becoming a minister?
Don’t care what EV ! Just don’t repeat the history of potong by imposing heavy taxes on other makes!
It’s careless to fancy for imported cars that’s sure outflow of money out of country!
If Pro3 want to sell more cars in MY, they can always offer EV incentive for its small EV like below RM25k. Make the criteria the same as Low Cost Housing. This will benefits our B40 with low interest of 1%.
If the people in the M40 want to buy, they can purchase it from RM35k(with slightly bigger/better options) with normal interest. Can it be done??
Long run benefit country and people. Short run benefit who?
Long run benefit country and people. Short run benefit country people, oghang kampong…
What benefit can outweight the distortion of car price? I also want to know.
rakyat vote you guys to be the gov to ease our burden.
rakyat say NO to third car MFR. NO means NO!
give us cheaper car and improve P1 or P2 further.
Sell RM 50K?
Read that one of the reason why foreign manufacturers went to Thailand for EV manufacturing was because of no response from SIRIM & JPJ. When no answers came from them, foreign manufacturers just moved on to Thailand, who welcome the investment with open arms.
Let that not happen again, what with the new gomen in charge.
Why no response?
Because proton
Fuel saving we have Perodua.. Proton is syiok sendiri..
Perodua only syiok sendiri when talking about fuel saving. My Myvi drinks as much petrol as my other Preve CFE.
Sembanglah ngko.. semua tau preve cfe/turbo tu mcm mana. Tu sbb sales myvi jauh lebih banyak daripada preve. Tu pun nasib baik polis yg byk beli..
Pipu buy P2 becoz its cheap, not becoz its gud.
Pipu buy P1 becoz they prefer Live Value over Regret Value for their famili.
Old preve got 1.6 without turbo lor
A car with carbon fiber chassis, 1.2 or 1.6 turbo engine and with a kinetic energy recovery system.
Should be perfect.
Carbon fibre chassis is expensive. Price of the car would be too high for people.
Perotiga needs Geely’s involvement. Then it will be as good as guaranteed success.
Perotiga, Proton, Geely > all
Dun think Geely will wanna work with Kawan Bapak vendors to P1 that will soon jump ship to Protiga. They will be making a big mistake trying to work with them rather than focusing all their efforts onto P1.
We want cheaper cars! We dont want Perotiga! Can someone please start a campaign on this???!!!
The campaign is called GE. And during the last one, “we” have voted to go for unnecessary Perotiga instead.
Hmmm aren’t their cars gonna be expensive ? Even if they can be sold around 70-80 k (contoh la kan ♂️) .. cukai tinggi x (have no idea abt cukai on elctric vehicles) ? ♂️
That sounds like an appropriate reason to start a 3rd national auto company. Once I see that that is official & in black & white, then the gov has my support. Judging by the comments here though, Malaysians haven’t yet awoken to the fact that the future is with EVs. The demise of the fossil-fueled car is just around the corner and they’re still buying petrol & even diesel cars. It’s their loss.
If we are going to have our own Tesla….then why not?
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Sure. Provided we have USD $750million to throw away every quarter.
..so, this is exactly what opposition was against, during time they were opposition, yes ?