The Transport Ministry is proposing a special electricity tariff for the public transport sector to ease the financial burden on operators.
Its minister Anthony Loke said the current electricity charges for these operators are the same as those for businesses, which makes it financially challenging for the sector.
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Its minister Anthony Loke said the current electricity charges for these operators are the same as those for businesses, which makes it financially challenging for the sector.
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00:00Is that also driving the electrification that you talk about?
00:03Electrification of public transport, electrification of the government fleet?
00:07I guess that's a bit easier if it's completely under your control,
00:10in terms of basically how you want to do that.
00:12Electrification of public transport, yes, we are ongoing.
00:16Electrification of buses, for example,
00:18the Cabinet has instructed the industry to start procuring EV buses.
00:25Pasarana will start procuring EV buses this year.
00:28So all new buses will be EV-based.
00:31Our train, of course, is all electrified.
00:34One of the things that we always fought for in the Ministry of Transport
00:37is that we want a special rate for electricity for public transport.
00:42Because currently the tariff is the same for businesses, for public transport.
00:49So that makes it very, very costly for the public transport system.
00:53MRT, LRT, Pasarana, 30% to 35%, even KTMB,
00:5835% of their costs are paying electricity bill.
01:02So that is very costly in terms of public transport operators.
01:06What we are looking at is possibly looking at a special tariff for these operators
01:10to encourage public transport operators,
01:12not only government but also primary public transport operators,
01:15to go towards more electrification.
01:18And of course EV are the choices.
01:21So besides that, of course, we hope that government fleet can be changed.
01:27So government fleet, of course, we have long-term contract,
01:30so it's not that easy to change overnight.
01:33But we are starting with ASEAN.
01:35So all ASEAN guests coming into the country are adopting or using EV vehicles.
01:41Even the Singapore delegation today are starting to use EV.
01:44So I think that is also a message by the government to be sent to the market
01:49and also to the region that we are looking at electrification of our transport.