While some nations and their Boomer leaders cling to some imagined past, the rest of the world is charging towards a zero-emission future. Now, you can add Malaysian states Kuala Lumpur and Penang to the latter list, as both states exceeded their annual EV charger deployment goal … and they did it in March!
The Malaysian Ministry of Investment, Trade, and Industry (MITI) hopes to add a total of 10,000 electric vehicle charging stations to its streets by the end of the year, and it seems like they’re well on their way. As of March, both Kuala Lumpur and Penang have already exceeded 100% of their targets, with Johor, Pahang, and Sarawak each lready exceeding 50% that national deployment goal at the quarter mark.
The nation’s most populous and industrialized state, Selangor, meanwhile, fell just short of that 50% mark – but its goal, 4,000 chargers, is higher than the previously mentioned states combined. Even so, Selangor is keeping an impressive pace, at 46% of goal.
You can see a more detailed breakdown, below:
“With ambitious targets set by the government, including 20% of TIV comprising xEVs by 2030,” says Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and Internet of Things Institute (MARii) CEO Azrul Reza Aziz. “Malaysia demonstrates a robust commitment to electric mobility.”
Malaysia joins other SE Asian nations in aggressively building out an electric vehicle charging infrastructure as they race to both meet the demand of the nations’ EV drivers and decarbonize their public and private transportation sectors. The ability to reduce urban air pollution, and position themselves for the next-generation of mobility and manufacturing remain attractive, and indisputably beneficial side-effects.
Electrek’s Take
The dumbest, most confident American dude know still thinks the majority of people in Africa live in huts and get chased by hippos on their way back from the watering hole and that people in SE Asia live in huts and wade around in rice paddies all day – and precious few things make me happier than highlighting all the ways countries like Ethiopia (which successfully instituted a full ICE vehicle ban over two years ago) and Uganda (which is electrifying its public transit sector as I type this) are pulling ahead of oil-burning nations when it comes to technology and pollution controls.
SOURCE: MyZEVA, via Paul Tan. Featured image by Luke Ma, under CCA 2.0 Generic license.
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