Malaysia’s electric vehicle (EV) sales league has a newcomer in Proton, which started deliveries of its eMas 7 (stylised as e.MAS 7) last month. Launched on December 16, the brand’s first EV started flowing out to early bird customers this year as most would prefer ‘2025’ on their geran.
As such, the eMas 7 topped the EV chart in January 2025 with 421 units registered, well ahead of the BYD Sealion 7 (151 units), M6 (136) and Atto 3 (104). However, that quick start (which is expected for such a high-profile newcomer) isn’t quite enough to push Proton to the top of the EV sales league by brand – it’s second behind BYD’s 505 units, as the Chinese giant has five EVs (the above-mentioned three plus Seal and Dolphin) in its local range.
It’ll be interesting to see the sales battle between one-model-brand Proton and BYD’s range this year. As of late last month, order books for the eMas 7 had close to 4,000 units. “Our target is to deliver 1,000 units by the end of February, with a further ramp-up in March to meet the strong demand,” Pro-Net chief branding officer Salawati Mohd Yusoff told us, adding that the 1k-unit mark is usually when a new car starts to be ‘seen on the road’.
Third is BMW with 230 units, which is very impressive when you see that chief German rival Mercedes-Benz only sold 35 units last month. That’s what BMW-owned MINI is doing (34). Elswhere, fourth placed Zeekr (101) is another brand with a ‘new model bounce’ – the Geely-owned brand’s 009 luxury MPV and X crossover were launched in December.
Bermaz’s Xpeng started the year strong with 81 units registered in January. So far, the distinctive G6 SUV is the brand’s sole model, but we might see the X9 luxury MPV in showrooms soon.
The rest of the top 10 has MG in sixth (53), GWM in seventh (43), Porsche in eighth (38) and Mercedes-Benz in tenth. Tesla is all the way down in 14th with 13 units registered. We’re pretty sure this isn’t due to the Elon Musk negative effect seen in Europe and Australia (the Tesla boss is US president Donald Trump’s right-hand man of sorts), and some might be waiting for the Model Y Juniper that will be here in April.
Still early days, 11 games to go. Jan 2025 EV sales by model here.
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Bmw doing too well. Must be brand conscious type c need show off. Lapsap.
Unlike type M can only afford myvi
Yes the M40s have drop to owning Myvis now that everything is becoming way too expensive. And this useless Gomen is not doing anything except fattening themselves.
Keep you mouth shut! Tahi!
I always eat roti telur + sardin.. not like u only roti kosong.. unconscious type M only can afford Axia…
Yes the M40s have drop to owning Myvis now that everything is becoming way too expensive. And this useless Gomen is not doing anything except fattening themselves.
mmg ini salah type c naik harga benda
mana anjeng anjeng tesla barking?
No delivery on January. February konfem numba wan
soon will be another price war raise between EV… EV cars become more affordable
more affordable and more unreliable
I don’t understand why hyundai EV doesn’t looks popular in malaysia while when i visited indonesia ioniq 5 is everywhere and kona ev but when i saw this list quite surprise that hyundai EV doesn’t make it at all even tesla sales is also lower than thai sales
Come on, buy ev cars with auto pilot..
All vehicles above 20yrs must scrap. Too many bc bruk otr