Lack motivation, petrol is cheap.
Lack infrastructure, really limited charging facility
Lack incentive, MY consume way too price sensitive, pay more to save the earth? what a joke
Lack awareness, MY consumer see EV, PHEV, Hybrid like see ghost, scare this scare that, most of all, scare of RV

Also need to consider the habit of Malaysian driver, interstate driving is common. It sucks to have mileage anxiety, which is a existing problem in China now given their EV adoption is really high. Not uncommon for them to encounter jam on highway and end up have to turn off aircon just to preserve battery for more mileage to the next charging station. And the best thing is, there's a jam / queue to charge their car. Let's imagine, driving from JB to Penang, have to charge mid way, and if you are unlucky, there's 2 char infront of you, each have to charge at least 30-60 mins.

But it's suitable if you only travel within city, and have charging point at home.

Also Malaysian dont have old car scrapping regulation, so it's common to keep your car for 15-20 years if it can run, but EV is never meant to be a 10-20 years car.

50k for 1 whole block of battery? My understanding is that most batteries are now modular. Example, Volvo's PHEV, to replace all is about 40+k, but per block/module is about 5k, which i think still kinda reasonable, unless you unfortunate at the max level.

And before anybody start sharing the battery swapping technology. My take is that it's not gonna to work anytime soon. As magical as it sounds, it really doesnt make sense.

1. it is extremely expensive to build a battery swapping station, and it's useful service range is probably 10km radius, anything more than 10km is not practical for owner to use
2. extending from #1, it will take super long to get ROI on swapping station, and slow to build more station, especially so for smaller city and town
3. car owner are offered a battery subscription model. So they can actually buy car without battery, then they subscribe to the battery and pay monthly. During subscription, they can go battery swapping station to swap their battery. But subscribing to this is way more expensive than using petrol
4. There's no guarantee that all stations will work, some break down, then what happen?

It will only be feasible if China manage to unify all battery standard, size, and placement in all EV cars, so it's feasible for them to build battery swapping station as part of their infrastructure. But again, all cars are design and build differently, it's hard to imagine everybody building the battery in the same way. Even within the same company, for different car model, size, body, are they able to ensure their battery size and placement is all standardize? Hard also.