Banque pour le Commerce Exterieur Lao Public (BCEL) and EV Lao Company have teamed up to launch a smart card system for the payment of charging costs for electric vehicles. The proposed smart card would link BCEL’s smart card system and EV Lao’s EVBox charging system, Vientiane Times reported. BCEL began offering fee and bill […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd’s wholly-owned unit TNB Energy Services Sdn Bhd (TNBES) and Malaysia Green Technology Corp (MGTC) has set aside RM1.5 million to put up 100 charging stations for electric vehicles (EV), at shopping malls and select 5-star hotels. TNBES managing director Dr Ahmad Jaafar Abd Hamid said to date, 14 ChargEV stations […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Handal Energy Bhd’s (Handal) wholly-owned subsidiary, Handal Energy Solutions Sdn Bhd, is making its maiden foray into the renewable energy segment by signing a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to jointly develop a hydrogen-paired electric race car (HyPER) in Malaysia. In a statement today, Handal said the MOA was signed together […]

On 8 August 2019, the same day that Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, was reported by Jakarta Post, a local newspaper, as the city with the worst air pollution in the world, President Joko Widodo (commonly known as President Jokowi) promulgated the unprecedented Presidential Regulation No. 55 of 2019 concerning the Acceleration of Battery Electric Vehicle […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The National Energy Council (DEN) has called on offices to set up charging stations for electric vehicles. Electric vehicles can lower air pollution, fossil fuel consumption, and oil imports, Djoko Siswanto, DEN Secretary General noted in a statement here on Sunday. “The rationale behind using electric vehicles is to realize a cleaner […]

BANGKOK • Thailand’s ubiquitous tuk-tuk, the noisy, colourful three-wheeled taxi that has been belching exhaust on the roads for almost a century, is getting a cutting-edge makeover to help carry the local auto industry into the future. Come November, a public-private partnership will test the nation’s first self-driving tuk-tuk in an effort to nudge Thailand […]

Shell Singapore is getting into electric-vehicle charging in Southeast Asia. Shell Recharge is the company’s EV-charging operation at its service stations, and by October it will be available at 10 Shell stations – close to 20% of its retail network in Singapore. The Shell Recharge 50-kW rapid direct-current chargers typically provide 80% charge in about […]

Etran (Thailand), a startup in innovative electric motorcycles, has unveiled its latest product driven by clean energy as the Department of Land Transportation announced that motorcycles in Thailand produce 50,000 tonnes of CO2 emission per day, or over 18 million tonnes a year. Supported by PTT Plc, Etran has developed motorcycles that help lift the […]

SINGAPORE — Utilities firm SP Group has expanded its network of electric-vehicle charging points to 200 islandwide. In a statement on Monday (Sept 9), the firm said that among the 200 points are 52 direct-current fast chargers that can fully power up a car in 30 minutes. By the end of next year, the company […]

Indonesia is eyeing the development of a domestic electric vehicle industry, with a Presidential Decree on Electric Vehicles (EV) being presented to the public in mid August. This was followed up by the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan who said at an event on Wednesday that the government currently encourages investments into the […]