Perodua QV-E title confirmed for ‘the primary 100% Malaysian EV’ – PMX launching it finish of this month

Perodua has launched a teaser of its first ever EV, and within the video, the automotive’s entrance finish is proven for a cut up second. Our rendering whiz cum auto detective Theophilus Chin froze the body you see above and brightened it to indicate the automotive’s quantity plate, which reads ‘QV-E’, confirming the title we’ve been utilizing all this whereas to deal with the P2 EV.

“Electrical mobility for all. It started as only a dream. However with native hearts and arms, that dream turned actual – the primary 100% Malaysian EV. Not simply constructed right here, however constructed with imaginative and prescient, a imaginative and prescient to energy an ecosystem, jobs, expertise, know-how. Making EVs extra inexpensive, and sustainability extra actual. As a result of after we construct from residence, we construct a future for everybody,” the narrator reads.

The video ends with the road “from the arms of Malaysians comes the ability to maneuver Malaysia”. Is that this a not-so-subtle dig at Proton, which eMas EVs are rebadged Geely fashions which can be CBU imported from China? Solely P2 would know… Anyway, the QV-E, branded as an ‘essential nationwide agenda’ by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, shall be launched by the PM on the finish of this month.

Malaysia’s first homegrown EV is designed and developed in-house by Perodua and the corporate’s president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad advised us that P2 holds the (IP) mental property for the EV’s design and platform. Sure, platform too – Perodua’s first electrical automotive will use CATL-supplied LFP batteries, however that’s the extent of the Chinese language battery big’s involvement – no CATL skateboard.

We obtained up shut with the QV-E cross part on the current GATE 2025 present and noticed that the battery capability is 52.5 kWh. We’ve been advised to count on real-world vary of between 400 to 410 km. If true, that is usefully greater than the eMas 5’s vary and rivals the eMas 7, which maxes out at 410 km WLTP. Perodua’s efficiency targets for its EV – 0-100 km/h between six and 7 seconds, and a prime pace of round 160 km/h – are additionally streets forward of the just-launched eMas 5which is quoted with 0-50 km/h figures as a substitute.

Value clever, the Perodua QV-E will not undercut the eMas 5 (RM57k to RM70k with early hen rebates) – count on it to be across the RM80k mark. Nevertheless, one courageous and novel characteristic is the ‘assured future worth’ scheme that Zainal beforehand talked about – GFV, utilized by premium makes resembling Mercedes-Benz, will defend consumers from the steep depreciation of EVs. Additionally not supplied by another EV vendor in Malaysia now’s P2’s battery leasing scheme.

The purpose of getting a homegrown electrical automotive can also be to construct up an area ecosystem for EVs, and Perodua is concentrating on round 50% native content material for its EV by the center of 2026, which is an admirable objective. This most likely gained’t embody key elements such because the battery and electrical motor – which is able to come from China – however there are plans to localise these too. Nevertheless, ample quantity is required earlier than this makes enterprise sense.

Learn all about Perodua’s first EV right hereand discover out extra concerning the recently-launched P-Circle app that its homeowners will use, in addition to the wallbox residence charger which has a CCTV digicamambient lighting and a touchscreen management panel.

Dangle on, it’s simply across the nook now!

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