Following a meeting involving the Malaysian national EV steering committee (NEVSC), minister of international trade and industry Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz took to social media to provide an update on the local EV ecosystem.
According to the MITI minister, sales of electrified vehicles reached nearly 11,000 units in the first three months of 2024. However, said figure includes both battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as well as hybrids, and it’s not mentioned what’s the split. For context, EV-only sales amounted to 13,257 units last year, with the total number of EVs on Malaysian roads being 16,763 units.
As for charging infrastructure, Zafrul said around 268 new charging stations began operations this year, which brings the total number of EV charging bays as at the end of March to 2,288 units. He added that the ministry is maintaining its target of having 10,000 charging stations across the country by 2025, although the targeted number of DC fast chargers within this total has been increased from 1,000 to 1,500 units.
The committee also discussed the concept of “battery EV passports” where each battery is required to have a form of identification as part of a battery end-of-life strategy. This is to make them easily traceable for the purpose of recycling as part of a circular economy, which will also involve the recycling of the rest of the vehicle.
In his social media postings, Zafrul said there are more initiatives that can be carried out to further improve the local ecosystem.
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As well as hybrid? Proton X90 count or not?
EV sales is slowing down. People are going back to ICE. You see plenty of almost brand new BYDs in second hand listing.
Don’t be a hero, not worth it.
Quite the contrary. EV acceptance is growing and as an EV owner, not only am I realising lower operating cost, confidence among my friends are also growing.
Yes ur right. First batch owner nw diam diam already. EV is fast fading in Western too. China dump all rubbish here. Shanghai still u can see some EV because Gov heavy incentive, Beijing near to none due to cold weather. Guangzhou too very few. Shanghai is the last stand.
PT is helping to promote EV vehicles, even though the price of EV is double/triple that of an ICE vehicles.
Eg(https://paultan.org/2024/05/10/jac-i75-ev-light-duty-truck-in-malaysia-210-km-range-nedc-120-kw-dc-charging-from-rm266800-otr/)
No one knows how much PT gets paid to push the EV agenda.
Itu road tax untuk EV bila mau keluar? Hari hari tanya say coming soon, coming soon… you want EV to sell more published lar new Road Tax structure, Why take long to published?
Sudah umum banyak kali bahawa EV roadtax akan lebih murah dari ICE cars. Jangan risau.
Mantap. EV is the future and the best cars to drive since tak banyak barang boleh rosak cam ICE cars. Save money and save panadol. Mantap. Money saved can be used for better things in life