Where does Malaysia sit in terms of electric vehicle (EV) adoption relative to other countries? According to EV Connection, we’re quite far behind with just 0.96 EVs owned per 1,000 residents.
Meanwhile, Norway has the highest EV uptake in the world with 81 EVs owned per 1,000 residents. This is followed by Iceland (36.8 EVs per 1,000 residents), Sweden (20.6 EVs per 1,000 residents) and the Netherlands (10.7 EVs per 1,000 residents).
Beyond that, countries with an EV adoption rate of under 10 EVs per 1,000 residents include Germany (8.5 EVs per 1,000 residents), the United Kingdom (6.7 EVs per 1,000 residents), France (6.5 EVs per 1,000 residents), the United States (5.2 EVs per 1,000 residents), China (3 EVs per 1,000 residents) and South Korea (2.9 EVs per 1,000 residents).
The data appears to be taken from a survey released by Statista in April 2021, which focused on the number of EVs per population in leading countries worldwide in 2020.
Other countries that were listed in the survey include Italy (1.7 EVs per 1,000 residents), while those with lower EV adoption than Malaysia were Australia (0.5 EVs per 1,000 residents), Poland (0.4 EVs per 1,000 residents) and Greece (0.3 EVs per 1,000 residents).
Malaysia’s push to increase EV uptake has resulted in initiatives to make them more affordable. During the tabling of Budget 2022 (Bajet 2022), the government said EVs would be exempt from import and excise duties as well as road tax for a limited time.
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Very high EV uptake rate = No protected species
Very low EV uptake rate = Must defend protected species!
Not sure what U smoking.
EV is about clean-energy and reduce carbon footprint. However the open-ended question – there is NO normalisation for fast charging standard, charging infra, and battery recycling standard facility.
People don’t wanna dispute original purpose of adopting EV but turn-up creating more pollutions and costs
What are the rates for other asean contries? Some of them hv a very interesting insentive.
Here in sg, i see Teslas, hyundai EV, BYD everyday…
Show that just 2 years tax free is not enough…
EV toys for the rich.
let say if 80-90% of malaysian use ev car, then what happen to petronas? are we gonna get cheaper petrol cause supply more than demand?
Petronas has plenty of options..can sell to Russia.
Russia is 2nd largest oil exporter after Saudi. No need buy oil from petronas. What petrol grade fumes are you smoking?
The uncertainties of proper EV infrastructures and maintenance fees as well as used car market made the majority of car owners mostly of M40 and below shy away from EV vehicles (id dare to say T20 would thought the same too). Half hearted short term policies, semi commitments by the government and policy makers doesnt help improve the situation as many private sectors doubted their investments. Certainly with more players adopting new battery technology from samsung sdi like tesla, the cost ownership of EV will someday be affordable for all especially when it became normalized by the adoption of Perodua & Proton.
Only idiots believe that EV create more pollution and costs than ICE. Check your brains and facts. Just the lack of noise and smell will show you how clean EVs are. That is before you find out lower fiel and repair costs, as well as much higher resale value.
EV adoption rate in Malaysia will increase if the EV price lower then RM100k.
For now, the best solution is using PHEV or Hybrid Car
First of all, it’s expensive, secondly, changing infrastructure and range anxiety. Thirdly, resale value concern.
It’s especially concerning for the 3rd factor cos Malaysians spending behaviour is as such that, we worry about selling the vehicle before even we bought it.
No suprise as Norweigian were forced to adopt EV…
The rest of the world not so much hence lower adoption rate…
Weird that a ‘good’ thing must be forced… lol