: Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation is currently developing a strategic framework for the development and planning of electric vehicle infrastructure across Malaysia, said Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Lim Ban Hong.
“Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute and the Department of Standards Malaysia are also cooperating in ensuring that the EV technology adopted and developed in the country is uniform, safe and is of quality. He was replying to a question from Jimmy Puah Wee Tse on the policies taken by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to encourage the use of EVs as well as the addition of charging points for EVs across Malaysia.
“Additional incentives were also proposed under Budget 2023 and, at the same time, there are proposals to increase the number of EVs including hybrid as official vehicles for departments and positions is being fine-tuned by the Finance Ministry. Besides that, the land public transport vehicles are also encouraged to change to vehicles that use electric,“ he said.