Not simply constructed right here, however with 100% Malaysian R&D – Perodua QV-E teasers financial institution on homegrown EV facet

Perodua has adopted up its QV-E video teaser launched final Friday with smaller teasers displaying glimpses of its first EV. Truthfully, there’s nothing a lot to share when it comes to new angles/options that we’ve not seen to this point – what’s extra hanging for us is the messaging.

The fourth and newest teaser launched a couple of hours in the past repeats the road “from the arms of Malaysians comes the ability to maneuver Malaysia”. The YouTube clip’s caption reads “Constructed with our arms. Charged for our tomorrow. A spark lighting the highway forward and able to transfer each one in every of us ahead. The long run is sort of able to roll out.” The second video titled “Engineering the Subsequent Period of Mobility” emphasises “100% Malaysian R&D”.

The message from P2 is evident – that is Malaysia’s first homegrown 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, expertise. Making EVs extra reasonably priced, and sustainability extra actual. As a result of once we construct from residence, we construct a future for everybody,” the primary teaser‘s narrator reads. The movies are embedded under, examine them out.

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 itself is aware of… Anyway, the QV-E, branded as an ‘necessary nationwide agenda’ by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, can 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 instructed 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 large’s involvement – no CATL skateboard.

We received up shut with the QV-E cross part on the latest GATE 2025 present and noticed that the battery capability is 52.5 kWh. We’ve been instructed 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 chicken rebates) – count on it to be across the RM80k mark. The corporate says that it’s not concentrating on the plenty with the QV-E, and as such final affordability isn’t the primary aim.

One courageous and novel function is the ‘assured future worth’ scheme that Zainal beforehand talked about – GFV, utilized by premium makes equivalent to Mercedes-Benz, will defend consumers from the steep depreciation of EVs. Additionally not provided by another EV vendor in Malaysia now could be P2’s battery leasing scheme.

Ecosystem is one in every of Zainal Abidin’s favorite subjects and the purpose of getting a homegrown electrical automotive can also be to develop an area ecosystem for EV manufacturing. On this entrance, Perodua is concentrating on round 50% native content material for its EV by the center of 2026, which is an admirable aim.

This likely received’t embody key parts such because the battery and electrical motor – which is able to nonetheless come from China – however there are plans to localise these too. Nevertheless, enough quantity is required earlier than this makes enterprise sense, and that’s a bridge to cross later.

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

Are you excited to see what Perodua got here up with in simply two years? We’re a few week away from the launch, when every part could be revealed, together with the identification of a big-name world automotive firm that consulted within the P01A challenge. Keep tuned!

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