Tenaga Nasional (TNB) has announced that it will be collaborating with PLUS Malaysia (PLUS) on a number of sustainability initiatives, including the development of an electric vehicle (EV) fast charging station infrastructure as well as the installation of photovoltaic solar systems in two R&R buildings along the PLUS highway alignment.
Last Friday, both parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together on the initiatives, with the primary one being the installation of a number of EV charging stations at selected high-potential rest & service areas (RSAs) on the North-South Expressway (NSE) as well as on the East Coast Expressway Phase 2 (LPT2). Meanwhile, the photovoltaic solar systems will be installed on the roof of the Ayer Keroh R&R building (Northbound) and Tapah R&R (Northbound), with total capacity of over 360 kWp (kilowatt peak).
While the announcement of the collaboration did not detail specifics of the DC network, a document sighted by this publication reveal that the proposed development will see a total of eight fast charging stations being introduced on both highways (six on the NSE, and two on the LPT2), across six states.
The five-year project, effectively a pilot programme to determine viability and response, will see a number of DC chargers with different outputs being installed for the purpose of evaluation and review.
Proposed locations for the charge points are:
- RSA Gurun (both Northbound and Southbound, 120 kW DC and 120 kW DC respectively) in Kedah
- RSA Gunung Semanggol Southbound (150 kW DC) and RSA Tapah Northbound (180 kW DC) in Perak
- RSA Rawang Northbound (150 kW DC) in Selangor
- RSA Ayer Keroh Northbound (120 kW DC) in Melaka
- RSA Paka (Arah Kuala Terengganu and Westbound, 120 kW DC for both) in Terengganu (LPT2)
It was not revealed as to when the project would be underway and the stations operational. As for payment and charge costs, no specifics were detailed, save the mention that a one-stop app, supporting different modes of payment (membership, credit cards, Touch ‘n Go etc) as well as various EVSE protocols, will be the chosen payment platform, presumably operated by TNB.
Looking to sell your car? Sell it with Carro.
Satu lagi projek kebanggaan MITI
Mr.Civic Turbo..kebanggan..you must be insanely misled.
Without a mass availability of affordable cars that need charging,this project is just to enrich the contractors.
Right now,how much is the cheapest electric car?
It is like building a rocket skeleton but the rocket engine is still too expensive and not easily available.
This is a money pit mega project.
After all who give a damn,if availability of affordable EV take very long to materialise.
The same people who were complaining about our slow efforts in EV take up are the same people here complaining about setting up EV infra when EV cars are still expensive.
Lol!
Dont setup, complain Govt slow in EV compared to region.
Do setup, complain this is a money pot mega project.
These folks better stay in villages and not worry about insufficient EV chargers or money used to setup infrastructure.
Get off the internet, go back to your horse-drawn carriages, oil lamps, and preindustrial age of living as that lifestyle suits your simple minds better.
Siapakah yang sebenarnya ‘untung’ disini?
Our children and our children’s children. The future is EV, if we as parents don’t set it up now how are our children going to untung. We need to do our responsibility for the future.
ok la 120kw..not bad
does it effect warranty.
can already smell the corruption from here
No wonder Mesia going backwards. Everytime we want to move forward, got these useless rakyats holding us back. The rest of ASEAN are moving ahead but we are going backwards becoz of them.
It’s not about ‘wondering’ going backwards or blaming the useless rakyats. But don’t you know that we as rakyats are just terpaksa following the superior (which is gov). Easy for you to say “We have PRU for better future etc etc etc…”. I have 1 question, how are our country performed on 2021? (On corruption index)… Getting bersih or jatuh lagi ranking-nya?
If you somehow knew how the tender ‘works’, then you will understand who will ‘untung’ most in this projects. Gonna say our children and children’s children?
This is about building infrastructure that is not yet available, not about corruption. Building infrastructure always going to profit somebody. I think the policy of government is to entice as much of Malaysian towards EV adoption. If you don’t get it, that is a shame.