Miti
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) continues to review the National Automotive Policy (NAP 2020) to keep it aligned with current developments happening locally and globally.
Secretary-general Datuk Seri Isham Ishak said the policy is “futuristic” and no improvement is needed at the moment.
“The NAP 2020 is still being updated and well utilised at the moment. It is always under constant review under Miti and the Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute.
“We look at (every) change, (for example) geopolitically, so that we can tweak it quickly and the industry will be able to adjust to those changes via government policy support,” he told reporters at the Automotive Trade Fair-Automechanika Kuala Lumpur 2023 here yesterday.
He said in addition to NAP 2020, there are also other policies by other agencies that provide micro support, especially for small and medium enterprises, producers, raw material providers, intermediate companies that produce intermediate goods and those final assemblers.
Isham said the examples are the National Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy, which was also embedded into the Low Carbon Mobility Blueprint and the National Transport Policy to drive EV adoption in Malaysia amid increasing environmental, social and governance calls globally.
He said the setting up of the National EV Taskforce was to package all EV-related policies and to bring all stakeholders together to form a similar understanding as well as a solid synergy in ensuring all initiatives across respective scopes and jurisdictions could be unified.“The taskforce will evaluate the current policies, formulate new policies and monitor the implementation of the EV agenda.
“For an example, when it comes to charging stations, the critics we’ve been receiving were that there are so much less EV stations in Malaysia but now there are more than 900 charging stations now and many more are coming,” he said. — Bernama
