Volvo Car Malaysia is fully committed to electrification, with a pair of EVs to arrive next year. Managing Director Charles Frump details the company's direction; read the interview, here.
has revealed at a media roundtable that of the two EVs, it is the smaller model, the EX30 that will be making its Malaysian arrival first. Along the way, Frump also offered insights into the brand’s direction in Malaysia.: We’re super excited to have those cars coming here, but it won’t happen this year. Our product cadence will take some time for CKD operations to begin, and the EX30 will come first in Malaysia.
Essentially that [objective] is already built in, we’ve already stopped development of petrol engines, we’re only launching fully electric cars from this point forwards at a very good cadence. That 2030 target globally for going all electric, will be for Malaysia as well. One thing that’s often not really understood is the PHEVs. We also get very good support for PHEVs. In addition to being a great solution to going fully electric, it’s a step-by-step approach you can take for those who aren’t quite ready to go full electric and have concerns around infrastructure.
As we’re building new apartments, upgrading apartments, as we’re working on the grid and making sure it can support – and this is a major factor – if you want an adoption of BEVs and PHEVs, home charging is really the key. I think we tend to get lost on having extensive [charging] networks and the like; if you charge at home, you’re 99% there.
He stated in that event that the government wants to look at that and make sure that its in line with their EV adoption policy, so I think they are working on it, and I fully expect that by the time the new road tax structure is announced in 2025, that it will be in line with their goals. Right now it’s the opposite of that, and I think they recognise that. So that was quite a big win for us when he announced it at our event.
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