More EV update from Budget 2024. Malaysian finance minister and prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced that Prasarana Malaysia will acquire 150 electric buses and build three bus depots to support the LRT3 project, at a cost of RM600 million.
Now called the LRT Shah Alam Line, the LRT3 project is expected to be completed and open to the public by March 2025. The 37.8 km line is set to have 20 stations linking Bandar Utama in Petaling Jaya to Johan Setia in Klang. The 150 electric buses will serve as feeder transports to neighbourhoods around the stations.
Interestingly, just this very week, transport minister Anthony Loke told the Dewan Rakyat that electric buses are “too expensive” for the Malaysian government. Costs for purchasing EV buses are double that of conventional buses, and that “if it were possible, we would want all bus fleets to be EV bus fleets,” he said.
Also, Rapid Bus (a subsidiary of Prasarana) recently announced its target of having 30% of its fleet being fully electric by 2030, onwards to 100% EV buses by 2050. The company aims to start with an EV bus fleet of 4% for 2024, and up to 100 units by 2026.
How the 150 new electric buses announced in Budget 2024 will fit this plan remains to be seen.
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Ahlokekor is sadly not on same wavelength as PMX.
He said electric buses too costly…now PM announced something else on the contrary.
How to trust the MADANI germen if its own menteri keep on contradicting the PM?
And the worst is this same menteri hammered the MYairline that has gone bust with stupid questions.The airline cant pay salaries n suppliers.No payment..so no fuel lah.How to fly? Why attack a drowning airline that is insolvent?
https://paultan.org/2023/10/12/ev-buses-too-expensive-for-government-to-introduce/
Yeah what is this? PH too taken by their own self generated fake news that they believed it themselves now?
Of course, it’s too expensive for the government to buy directly, which is why this public listed GLC will do the buying.
What is GLC stands for? Government Link Companies. So meaning money still come from G larr bodoh!!!
If Lokekor said it is expensive then where the money to buy them???
You guys should watch that video of TM in the parliament & listen carefully to his speech in BM about EV buses. It appears that when BFM News translated it into English, the result of the translation appears to give the impression the TM had said that EV buses are too expensive & the government is not going to buy them. But in his original BM speech, he said that the cost of the EV buses is high & he welcomes suggestions & ideas on how to procure EV buses at a lower cost. However, he did not say outright that it’s confirmed that the government is not going to procure EV buses due to the high cost.
Shut your trap up lar AhLokeKor the IMPOSTER!
The EV buses, the ebikes, the EV cars as gment cars…
Some people is pocketing shedload of money…
Kudos. Bus commuters while queuing waiting bus less likely to inhale cancer toxic fume from stationary bus exhaust.
Yes but where they gonna get the money? Lokekor ady said EV bus are expensive and G has no money to buy them. Now suddenly got money???