Launched last September, there’s no denying that the JPJePlate, which is specifically meant for use on electric vehicles (EV), provides the type with a unique identity through its distinct physical appearance.
Now, whether you’re indifferent to it being there or are chuffed to bits that it’s on doesn’t really matter if you’re a new EV owner, because its use is mandatory on all new EV registrations, but apparently some motorists who don’t have an EV think the plate is the bee’s knees, so much so they’ve taken to replicating that look on plates for their internal combustion engine vehicles.
Case in point, the vehicle you see in the photo here. Posted yesterday on the MyEVOC Facebook page, it shows a Mercedes-Benz vehicle bearing a JPJePlate, or in this case, a licence plate replicated to look exactly like a JPJePlate.
The giveaway that it isn’t kosher is that it’s on an A 250 sedan, which when everyone last looked isn’t an EV. In any case, while it may look like it, it’s not a real IDePlate as issued through official channels or authorised installers, given the missing ‘Rear’ identifier and QR code on the lower right side of the plate, which is where the digital signature is supposed to be on the legit one.
We reached out to Handal Ceria to ask if they were aware that such activity was happening, and the reply was that the plate isn’t legit and that the company has already lodged a complaint with the road transport department (JPJ) to take action over the matter.
The thing is, it’s not the first time a plate styled as such has been sighted on an ICE vehicle, and given the manner enforcement on fancy/non-regulation traditional licence plates has worked out so far, it surely won’t be the last unscrupulous attempt to come about.
Right now, the discrepancy is easily spotted when referenced to the vehicle it is attached on, but things could get murky if the plate is eventually standardised for all new vehicles in Malaysia, which is what the government is looking to work towards, specifically in terms of cloning and fake plates. But, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Dear writer anthony, we know your england powerful, so keep it to youself, too many fancy words. I’m just trying to read an article.
Hence the use of AI models, brushing up articles wrote in simple English with poderful England … PT can start reducing headcount as you don’t need many people to write articles … just a good Ai model … presto, Deepseek is a good start since its completely free :)
Wtf, why not use Google translate and expand your vocabulary if you didn’t understand something? I didn’t find the article too flowery in any way. To learn and grow isn’t a bad thing, I’m sure you’re still not crawling around and communicating via gugugaga sounds.
Might be good to improve your English because this is tame stuff, really.
You came for an english article. If you couldn’t keep up, grab a dictionary. Improve yourself.
Asking the writer to keep it to himself?? Your self entitlement is off the charts.
Why not you use it as an opportunity to improve your England lah. If keep writing at standard 3 level BI no one will ever progress.
Too complicated for yours truly?
You can go read BM edition then.
Why make a fuss here over nothing. You truly want to lower journalism quality and standards.
Inbe4 car accessories shop owner worker make and put replica ev plate on their rides LOL
i dont support fancy plate but what are they expecting when they took so long to implement something and with all the open sources to after market plates?
https://paultan.org/2024/09/11/malaysia-to-adopt-standardised-euro-style-number-plate-for-all-cars-in-future-white-bg-no-fancy-plates/
eventually ICE and EV may get the EURO-style Plate
Kind of stupid for JPJ to pick white plates as people were using this colour way before EV license plates were a thing. Why JPJ blame those people when they are colour blind?
Some people are just so eager to find other people’s fault. Be it any colour, it will be hard to satisfy certain quarters. Accept and move on. Do not like it? Use ICE vehicle instead. No need to be bitter.
Bodos everywhere
Same too you
You must the A tak ada class driver in said picture
Is this ai powered writing? First time seeing ‘kosher’ being use on automotive article.
Same too you
Fancy plate article but fancier writer. Keep it simple mate
Berapa kali dah cakap kan…so bila mau tukar kepada JPJ/government only issued plates? I said this would happen as I’m sure others have. Give accessories shop an inch and they’ll take a light-year.
1. menteri bodoh
2. pengarah bodoh
3. jurutera bodoh
5. tuanpunya kereta ayng pakai EV plate.. lagi bodoh.. simply wasting money
6. kedai yang jual EV plate laughing all the way to the bank
I suggest drastic action should be taken on all 6 categories… if not this will prevail!..and become worse!!
what can loke loke do, this owner buys this maseli A for his maid to go pasar one, summon all you can coz he’s going to pay whatever amount you fine him. money is just a serie of digits.
not a difficult thing to fix, just move all ICE cars to the new design in black – that will fix most if not all the problems
Bantha Poo Doo !!
wow, and the new ePlate was tauted as tamper-proof. It’s already copied and used even before a full rollout. Malaysia boleh!
I use EV plat my car makan less petrol oh