The installation of public electric vehicle chargers in Malaysia will be accelerated, the process will be reduced to 3 months – Tengku Zafrul

In March of last year, the government – under the previous administration – reiterates its goal of having 10,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in place by 2025, as originally outlined in 2021 under Blueprint for Low Carbon Mobility (LCMB) 2021-2030.

These will include 9,000 alternating current (AC) chargers and 1,000 fast direct current (DC) chargers. At the time, there were about 600 public charging points for EVs across the country.

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) said another 4,000 toll collection points were expected to be implemented by 2023, but at the last count, the number was just over 1,000leading to the question of whether the country can meet its 2025 target.

MITI Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz believes it can be met thanks to the upcoming changes. Speaking on the sidelines of the competition Launching Tesla Supercharger Station at Pavilion KL Last week, he said the government was in the process of speeding up the process so that toll point operators (CPOs) could secure installation approvals much faster than currently possible.

Right now, the main bottleneck is the time it takes to deploy a charging point – bureaucracy and bureaucracy (approval from local councils, land owners, etc.) means it takes eight to nine months to install from start to finish, but he says that will soon change.

He said that a series of meetings organized by recently appointed national electric vehicle steering committee (NEVSC)was established under the scope of the national EV task force, which is in the process of accelerating development.

After discussing the matter, he said that ministries, government agencies and even stakeholders are of the same opinion on the need to speed up the process, with the plan being to reduce the time needed from approval to collection by a third compared with the current one.

“Everybody is on the same page to make sure we can move things forward and move faster. Led by Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC), there will be an improvement in timing. We are aiming to reduce it to three months. That’s what was agreed on and so now we’re perfecting and refining this,” he said paultan.org.

He added that although the timeframe is shortened, there will be no compromise on safety. “Of course, safety comes first, and here the government must strike the right balance between what the industry wants and what the regulator feels is safe for consumers. We wanted to make sure the regulations were clear, but we looked at other countries to learn from them, to see how it was done,” he said.

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