Sudahkah Malaysia bersedia tampung penggunaan kenderaan elektrik?

Pelancaran Tesla Model Y di Bukit Bintang pada 20 Julai 2023. - Foto fail NSTP/Aswadi Alias

KUALA LUMPUR: Enam tahun lalu, Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, antara pemilik terawal kenderaan elektrik (EV) di negara ini, mengelak daripada memandu jauh Tesla miliknya, lantaran bimbang “tersadai” di tepi jalan sekiranya kereta itu kehabisan kuasa sebelum tiba di destinasi yang dituju. Katanya pada masa itu, bilangan stesen pengecas EV untuk orang awam terlalu sedikit, […]

Is Malaysia ready for higher adoption of electric vehicles?

A Tesla electric car is charged at a charging station at a car park in Berlin, Germany on August 3, 2023. - AFP Pic (for illustration purposes only)

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi remembers the day he started driving his first all-electric car in 2017 when there were very few public charging stations in peninsular Malaysia. The co-founder of the Malaysian Electric Vehicle Owners Club (MyEVOC) said at that time, it was a huge challenge for Eelectric Vehicle (EV) users to […]