Perodua QV-E modular platform to spawn smaller, cheaper EV – hybrid and vary extender potential too

December 2, 2025

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The Perodua QV-Ebilled as Malaysia’s first homegrown EV, was formally launched yesterday. We’ve lined the challenge extensively by the episodesand have posted not simply on the automotive (deep dive right here), however confirmed you all the ancillaries such because the P-Circle app, P-Cost Cellular ‘powerbank’, the P-Go smartwatch and the AC wallbox that has a CCTV and display. Click on the hyperlinks to learn extra.

The QV-E’s RM80k value plus battery leasing scheme caught some abruptly, though that determine for the EV’s ‘physique value’ has been reported earlier thanwith P2 sticking to its deliberate RRP even after Proton eMas 5 pricing was revealed.

There are cheaper methods to market an EV, however Perodua’s duty as an automotive sector ‘champion’ beneath Malaysia’s New Industrial Grasp Plan (NIMP) 2030 is to catalyse the expansion of an area EV ecosystem.

“Thus, the chosen OTR value, design and specs are the results of balancing the wants of each the federal government and the Malaysian market. The P01A serves not simply the patron, nevertheless it’s a product that can kick-start and speed up the BEV ecosystem in Malaysia,” Perodua says, including that the quick lead time and decrease preliminary stage localisation immediately impacts the QV-E’s value.

Maybe this is the reason they couldn’t kick-off with a finances EV for the plenty. However a smaller and cheaper EV based mostly on the QV-E’s platform is in Perodua’s plans, Perodua president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad mentioned on the QV-E media preview final month.

“The platform improvement isn’t just for this mannequin – longer vary, present battery measurement, or we will regulate and put in a hybrid or REEV (vary extender electrical automobile),” he mentioned when explaining the modular nature of the QV-E’s platform, co-developed by Magna Steyr, the Austria-based engineering agency that’s additionally the world’s most well-known contract producer.

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When quizzed about QV-E’s value – which is for ‘M40 and above’ younger households with young children and T20 youngsters, described as ‘youngsters of a wealthy household, residing with mother and father’ – he mentioned that “we’ve got one other mannequin on the identical platform, and the opposite mannequin can have a greater pricing than this mannequin.” In different phrases, a smaller and cheaper mannequin.

Within the product presentation, Perodua defined that the P01A is the primary of a household of fashions within the A-B section, and prospects vary from a 2,550 mm wheelbase sedan and hatchback to a 2,700 mm wheelbase SUV (with a extra sensible, typical form; the QV-E has a 2,680 mm wheelbase and is outlined internally a Sportback). Hybrid and REEV powertrains are potential with mid-floor and entrance beam modifications.

By the best way, Magna Steyr has an electrical automotive platform on the market, however the QV-E’s platform isn’t the Magna EV Platform as that one is made for the C/D-segment and has multi-link rear suspension. So, Perodua didn’t simply buy the rights to make use of Steyr’s off-the-shelf platform.

Robust bones to work on, because the QV-E is five-star ASEAN NCAP-rated with increased general and grownup occupant safety scores than the upcoming Toyota Yaris Cross – Perodua Nexis/Traz. Full QV-E specs (445 km NEDC vary, 0-100 in 7.5s), battery leasing particulars (RM297 a month for 9 years) and mega gallery right here.