Interview with the Malaysian Minister of Environment on Climate Change, Chinese EVs, to Tesla
Interview with the Malaysian Minister of Environment on Climate Change, Chinese EVs, to Tesla. Malaysian Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate ChangeNik Nazmi assessed that ASEAN cooperation in overcoming the problem of climate change is now much better. He pushes for comprehensive solutions in creating eco-friendly regional ecosystems, amidst existing challenges such as air pollution to forest fires. I hope that we in Southeast Asia can find a way out of this problem – not blaming each other,” said Nazmi during an interview with Tempo journalists Abdul Manan, Daniel Ahmad Fajri, and Iwan Kurniawan in Jakarta on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, during his visit for the ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting in Bali this week.
AMEM will discuss the issue of ASEAN interconnectivity – this block once initiated the ASEAN
Power Grid to ensure the availability of electrical energy. But maybe in the past the price of energy was not high and it was not economical. Now – firstly, energy prices are increasing, secondly we talk a lot about the use of renewable energy – but we need an interconnectivity between ASEAN, like the one in Western Europe. In AMEM we will push more on the issue of Sumatra – Peninsula. ASEAN member countries each have a net zero target. The issue of interconnectivity – ASEAN Power Grid is very important.
The focus will be on the interconnectivity of BIMP, LTMS – related to the energy transition.
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This has changed, in my opinion. In Malaysia, the cheapest EV is from BYD – an electric car company from China – for RM 150,000 (Rp. 493 million). Our target is indeed for the range of RM 150,000 or below, the most basic Proton Pro-2. Otherwise, it will always be expensive. Of course people will imagine Tesla, BMW, Volvo, and others. When we opened the Tesla office in Malaysia, they also brought the car for RM 195,000, the second cheapest in the world.
