I think Perodua made a huge blunder going this route for their first EV. They should've stuck to their wheelhouse of making cheap cars for the masses and not try to do the battery leasing bullshit.

While the car looks good enough, no way it is worth 110k + (80k + 30k batt).

I hope that I am wrong, and it becomes successful coz it is the first Malaysian made EV anyway.

In order for them to get more time, they need to sell these cars. This looks like almost certain to be DOA. Perodua is a carmaker and EV skateboard chassis & blueprint is available for them to get to reduce cost, where they only need to build the body, cabin, etc. They could have as easily done a JV with one of the big auto companies in China. All the Japanese automakers leveraged on China automakers for their cars. Instead what they did was go nuts with form over function and a stupid battery leasing idea. This is reminiscent of Proton going nuts by sinking RM500mil to develop the Satria Neo which was never gonna sell in big enough numbers to recoup the development costs.

The Tesla example maybe made sense in 2010 but not in 2023 when there were already hundreds of models & supply chain already existing for EVs for them to choose from at the development stage.

eMas 7 was launched first due to the RM100k floor price for CBU EVs, Perodua's locally made EV does not have this limitation. I think you don't understand the difference in dynamics between Proton & Perodua when it comes to EV. Geely group has more than 20 EVs under their stable, so which one to introduce in Malaysia under Proton badge is a matter of market preference & cost. They don't have the issue of development cost like Perodua.