Prasarana Malaysia has been ordered by the transport ministry to procure EV-only buses once the final batch of previously-ordered, diesel-powered buses are delivered by March 2025, Bernama has reported.
“Next year we will try to [purchase new EV buses]. There was just [recently] another new purchase of 310 diesel buses, and I have told Prasarana that this will be the last purchase of diesel buses. After that, the procurement of buses [will be aimed at EV buses], transport minister Anthony Loke said.
The tabling of Budget 2024 last October saw the announcement by Malaysian finance minister and prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim that Prasarana Malaysia will acquire 150 electric buses in support of the LRT3 project, along with the construction of three bus depots, at a cost of RM600 million.
The transport minister had previously said that electric buses are too expensive for the Malaysian government, though “if it were possible, we would want all bus fleets to be EV bus fleets,” he said last October.
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Take a look at hotel coffee house now. You might see more people than usual, discussing “untung atas angin”.
Haritu kata xde duit, hari ni tertiba ada duit, dari mana ye. Oh ya dari memotong bantuan2 & subsidi2 pertolongan kepada rakyat semua terutama dari B40.
According to local resident basher DonkeyKong, Malaysia is now turning LGBT and woke because of the usage of new electric vehicles.
PH took money from the poor just to get rich buses in order to make themselves feel good. It is like a reverse Robinhood role & the Sheriff(authorities) are in cahoots with them!
why the rush on spending money and contracts?
All indications point they might not last to the end of this year so they rushing to put out contracts (meaning; money inside pockets) before they got kicked out of Govt.
Never learn from Nadi Putra EV bus? tersadai dekat depo Nadi Putra Presint 14.
How save the ev buses will be? Considering the amount of electric buses catch fire randomly overseas.
Why do you care so much about buses safety? It’s for poor people. Faithful taxe payers waiting to re-activate their MySejahtera domestic passport.
Seriously, electric or diesel, when well-protected drivers against seasonal flu suddenly get stroke while driving? Does it really matter to be burnt in lithium or diesel? Lol
– Let’s pray for a vaccine against electric buses accident and vaccinated people LOL
Our grid boleh tahan this switch or not? EV is good for some things but it doesn’t just happen without the appropriate infrastructure. Then when TNB raise price cos demand vs supply ratio changes and more investment needed in to the grid for stability siapa kena bayar? Why are most of the politicians we get from any side so one dimensional?
Because the voting rakyat are one dimensional. How many did not even study who the person they voted?
Talk for yourself. If you did some serious study, you would know that voting is totally useless. Worse, it helps to maintain the illusion of choice. Democracy is nothing but entertainment for tards people (those who believe in Coca-Cola and Human Rights made in America…)
True also lah. Education system in tatters, can’t question anything (not solely due to education) or think critically.
Ah Loke now oso like to sembang kari nowdays.
Even Putrajaya’s former EV buses under previous operator oso lay dormant. He blindsided or his minions not doing their job. Almost 30%of RapidKL’s fleet being lay up bcoz of maintenance issue such as those ADL Enviro e500 doubledecker buses for example. Half of the fleet stranded at depots due to spareparts unobtainable & some of them being cannibalize for keep others OTR even that is not up to full operating condition. RapidKL’s buses mostly lack of proper maintenance regime, even if we see their condition is like about to fall apart.
Laymens way of upkeep. Even the simplest thing such as polishing up those Alcoa aluminum wheel to make look good is hard but they opted painting them with silver paint.
Just imagine if they bought those EV buses. Don’t we need to fear if those flammable battery packs explodes with this type of upkeep by RapidKL. Hightime Ah Loke lah as former school Head Prefect, get Prasarana/RapidKL in line on doing what are they suppose to do.