Electric vehicles: Coordinate efforts for benefits to people and nation

Relative to developed and developing countries, Electric Vehicle (EV) displacement of combustion engine vehicles in Malaysia has been lagging. Out of about 14.5 million cars, only 0.002 percent of them are pure EVs, compared to 2% in Singapore. Both Singapore and the UK will ban combustion engine vehicles by 2040.

The number of MG ZS ZE EVs sold in Chiangmai is already several times the amount of all EVs currently in Malaysia, with MG planning a factory to assemble the MG ZS ZE in Thailand in 2021. Hyundai has started investing in EV manufacturing and assembly in Singapore and Indonesia.