Charging ahead: Kuala Lumpur, Penang beat EV deployment goals
Image by Luke Ma, under CCA 2.0 Generic license. While some nations and their Boomer leaders cling to some imagined past, the rest of the world is charging towards a zero-emission future. Now, you can add Malaysian states Kuala Lumpur and Penang to the latter list, as both states exceeded their annual EV charger deployment goal … and they did it in March! The Malaysian Ministry of Investment, Trade, and Industry (MITI) hopes to add a total of 10,000 electric vehicle charging stations to its streets by the end of the year, and it seems like they’re well on their way. As of March, both Kuala Lumpur and Penang have already exceeded 100% of their targets, with Johor, Pahang, and Sarawak each lready exceeding 50% that national deployment goal at the quarter mark. The nation’s most populous and industrialized state, Selangor, meanwhile, fell just short of that 50% mark – but its goal, 4,000 chargers, is higher than the previously mentioned states combined. Even so, Selangor is keeping an impressive pace, at 46% of goal. …
