Selangor chief minister Amirudin Shari said the state welcomes Tesla to build a research and development centre, Berita Harian reported. This would be a continuation of the investment the pre-eminent electric vehicle maker has already funnelled into Selangor, such as its Malaysian headquarters in Cyberjaya and ASEAN’s largest Supercharger station in Gamuda Cove.
Amirudin said he understood the carmaker is planning to add to the number of charging stations in Malaysia as well as establishing a factory in the future, as the company looks to expand its business in Asia. “They have already opened their headquarters [in Selangor]. Maybe they will want to open a service centre after this because they want to expand their markets in Asia. If they have any R&D needs we welcome them.
“We have a lot more [investments] and we are now entering into semiconductors, with a site in Sepang and a number of other locations that we have focused on preparing for semiconductor [maufacturing] or any other industries,” he said.
The comments came after Amirudin was asked about a report that Tesla had cancelled plans to open an assembly plant in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia. That report, by the way, was refuted by the ministry of investment, trade and industry (MITI), although its minister Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz later stated that the company never made a commitment to open a factory here.
It was previously reported that a Tesla representative was scheduled to meet with MITI on August 22 to discuss further plans regarding the company’s investment in Malaysia. Tengku Zafrul has said the previous agreement included investments into the charging ecosystem, R&D and other related sectors.
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again, stop sucking up to a bloody fascist
Selangor PH Gomen still trying to fool the rakyat. Are their voters that dumb to still trust them? Like really?
Elon the Musketeer,dont give a damn who is Amirudin,Rafizi,Ah Chong or Muniandy.Unless u r Xi Xin Peng,who gives him special access to the mass China market.
The world’s most erratic,eccentric richest man can set up shop here,6 months later ,he can start downsizing.Dont put too much hope on him.
they still believe in his bullshit after the con man con them once.
PKR is parti hubungan songsang
Thanks to Anwar, I never encountered constipation problems ever since
Customer testimony, Saiful, 26 Jun 2008
whats there to r & d in selangor that tesla can’t achieve in china and us? what can malaysia offer in r & d that china and us cannot offer?
currently, tesla shanghai pumps out a million teslas a year, all of which can satisfy and more of the demand in the whole of asia pacific. and it can double, triple its output if needed with a work force thats highly motivated, highly productive and extremely cost effective. coupled with monetary and all around support from shanghai municipality and the national gov.
why is there a need to built a tesla factory in malaysia?? or thailand? or indonesia? these 3 mkts in total only sells about 2.4 m cars per annum.
does one expect tesla to completely takeover the sales of 2.4m cars in these 3 countries? or 10% (240k) of it? or 5% (120k)?
in any of the scenario, there is no need to set up factories in south east asia.
unless all these south east asian countries places a huge import tax on shanghai made teslas, then maybe tesla will do a ckd factory in these countries in conjunction with a local partner. which is something tesla doesn’t believe in. and watch out for actions in kind from china towards all these countries taxing china made teslas….
thus there is practically zero reason for tesla to set up a factory in south east asia. the demand can all be satisfied via its shanghai factory.
indonesia offers the next best alternative to a tesla shanghai factory as it has most of the major raw materials, cheap clean energy to built a tesla, close to the cost at tesla shanghai. only variable it lacks is a highly qualified workforce. this will be tesla’s best alternative for a factory in asia pacific if it ever is kicked out of china for whatever reason.
malaysia is a market where tesla wants to sell its products into. it will develop all the ancillary biz to support that effort, ie the sales, service and charging network.
there won’t be the “tens of thousands” of “high paying” jobs forthcoming ….
why you so into jilat zionist. what ancillary business. they dont even bother doing body and paint for accident repair. they reuse hapseng and another. so no new investment pun.
Because Selangor don’t steal information and go other companies.
Sembang.. Silap la main ngan Tesla.. Elon x peduli menatang apa, dia nak orang sembah dia saja..dia cancel bila2 dia nak, dia tukar bila2 dia rasa nak.. Suruh dia invest sana sini, dia akan ckp “go fcuk yourself”
Yup Elon Musk don’t give a fuck about anyone except himself
Only morons will worship him like a God
stop sucking up to zionist stupid PH pipol
the economy is industry driven…even higher ed also is industry driven. So why not get as many industries as u can…what happens next who knows
To be honest, I don’t even know will Tesla even pullout from Malaysia market one day considering the stiff competition from China and Proton will be going all out with EV soon.
And we are still hoping Tesla to setup R&D and Gigafactory here while they are not doing that well in this region?
In my opinion those Tesla hype days are over.
Malaysia is a very suitable place for R&D. First – the hot and humid weather. And a lot of rain in some months of the year.
Secondly. Superlong and smooth surface highway with terrible start-stop traffic during holiday seasons. You won’t get this in anywhere in Asean.
Third. Thousands of kilometres of winding trunk roads including blind spots, losing demarcation lines, scattered and sudden crossing animals. All good to test your FSD system.
Fourth. City traffic with a combination of super fast and super slow cars, lane hoggers, lightning speed lane splitting bikes and also red light beating motorists. We have them all.
Fifth. Tiring mount climbs. Cameron, Genting, Rembau to Kuala Pilah mountain cross cut.
You don’t need a lot of honking for tests like Vietnam, India or Indonesia.