“We believe that being on the electric vehicle bandwagon is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’, as the government has already set its KPIs on electric vehicles,” the Perodua president and CEO said in response to the publication.
“To overcome this, we are actively working to bridge this gap with the full support of our partners. We are confident that we will be able to produce something in the near future,” he continued.“To this end, we are looking at a variety of ways to bring the Malaysian automotive ecosystem up to speed on how to produce the car and deliver it to the mass market by enhancing our vendors’ capability in producing EV-related parts,” he said.
Zainal said that at the moment, Perodua sees EVs as being complementary to internal combustion-engined vehicles, however the automaker thinks that EVs will play a greater role in the local automotive industry as the Malaysian government has pledged its commitment to the carbon neutrality agenda by 2030,Several factors are at play, said Zainal, and the first of these is price, for which the government has taken steps to offer incentives for increased uptake of EVs.
Given the small proportion of vehicles that Perodua has forecast to be EVs by that time, hybrids will likely take the lion’s share of electrified vehicles in Malaysia, and on that front the national carmaker offered thePerodua also offered a glimpse into its full-EV future with the
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