You will probably see your average grocery and food spending sky rocket then. At least 30% increase and price is sticky upwards. Even later when fuel prices go down, consumer prices won't.

We will have a runaway inflation and high poverty rakyat

Sweet deal, get it while the Cash voucher offer last.

I saw one electric car last weekend in PJ when driving on the roads. I think it's BYD if I'm not mistaken. Looks pretty cool.

Yes, likely that's the one. It looks modern and nice. 1000 delivered in 100 days would be 30 units sold in 1 month. Pretty good I would say.

The vehicle is not exactly cheap, RM150k for standard model and RM168k for top spec model. Looks like more people are beginning to embrace the future.

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this car shouldn't be allowed to enter highway with 110kmh speed limit.. 101kmh max? What a joke

gov also subsidy electric right? in the end will electric also goes up?

yesterday(sunday - 07/05/2023) i go to Maeps Motorshow.

The best EV rear seat will go to ORA Good Cat from GWM and the best ergonomic goes to KIA EV6..

ORA rear seat damn comfortable however i'm not sure how you will feel on long journey since it's quite soft.

Yes that's the main reason. Fuel is damn expensive at Thailand until they need to buy EV to counter the fuel price. Here, it just too cheap plus subsidy

It is undeniable the EV is future trend of automotive industry. The current concern mostly because of charging infra and range problem but these can be solved in near future.

Those who concern of charging infra, mind to ask where are the places the TNB not reachable? If you talk about jungle then don't buy it if you live long in jungle. As long as got 3 pin plug we can use it to charge the EV car, just matter of how long it takes. 1hr can give 3kwh, yes it will take about 24 hours to get about 70kwh but at least it still can charge. If we install 7.6kwh charger at home it will shorten by half.

Concern about range then we have to think about the EV battery technology. In the past there is only lithium available but battery tech move rapidly. There are many innovation on battery with many variants such as lithium,  LFP, LMFP, sodium, semi-solid state and in the future solid-state battery. For ICE people talk about engine tech but in EV people concern about the battery tech.

Miti is expecting 4000 charging points this year. Imaging 5 years time it will be at least over 20k charging points or maybe even surpass 30k points. This is for public and not include private charging point for household. I predict most if not all petrol stations will ready with charging port in future.

Many people keep complaining 400km range is too low should have at least 500km or even 700km range. I guess this might achievable in future. But for now 400km WLTP is reasonable. How many people really travel 150km per day, probably less than 10%.

Some concern KL bad traffic and cause more energy loss if driving EV. The concept of EV is almost upside down compare to ICE. EV give more range in city traffic and less range in highway cruise. In bad traffic the energy loss more in ICE and EV is less. ICE in bad traffic the engine is keep running to pull the fans belt to provide electricity to power electronic and also aircond.

2.0L idle for 1 hour is about 0.16 gallon (0.6L) without aircond. Assuming with aircond is 0.20 gallon per hour or 0.75L, it will be RM1.54 per hour stuck in traffic.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-8...diesel-vehicles

While in EV the most consuming energy is aircond during idle or bad traffic. Imagine household non-inverted 1hp aircond is almost 1kwh, but car cabin is much smaller. Even if include all electronic stuffs and makes it at 1kwh during idle or bad traffic, it is only RM 0.571 per hour. So driving in City and bad traffic the EV is much saver than petrol even though Malaysia petrol is cheap.

most links are from 2022 and it did not happen due to Gomen continue to give electric subsidies. https://www.thesundaily.my/local/electricit...2023-KE10729993

then to cut off fuel subsidy, doubt they even got the ball to do it, considering the PRN this year and not so fundamentally strong PMX gomen (a mix up combination). They had numerous Sunday meeting to discuss the petrol subsidy but as usual PMX dont have ball to pull it out.

I personally prefer Gomen don't spend more on subsidy for petrol, its kinda waste for gomen fund, in the North border, thousand of Thai registered cars put our 95. I did take pictures and report online + email to KPDNKK, as usual, but no action. If the Petrol price is less subsidy, sure  plenty more will convert to riding public transport for work