EP Manufacturing in EV tie-up

From left: EP Manufacturing Bhd executive chairman Hamidon Abdullah and SAEAN Group Inc. chief executive officer John Lee.

KUALA LUMPUR: EP Manufacturing Bhd has entered into a memorandum of agreement with California’s Saean Group Inc to mass produce 20,000 electric cars a year for the South-East Asian market.

The group is making its debut in the manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs) with the partnership to mutually develop and manufacture vehicles in the A-segment’s four-seater and five-door electric cars.