Will Malaysia Have An EV-lasting National Automotive Policy?

Vivek Vaidya, Associate Partner and Senior Vice President of Mobility, Frost & Sullivan

19-Feb-21 07:17

Will Malaysia Have An EV-lasting National Automotive Policy?

Pause
Embed

Vivek Vaidya from Frost & Sullivan helps us navigate the different aspects of Malaysia's ambitions to be an automotive manufacturing hub and what it needs to do to introduce EV vehicles to scale.

Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

Produced by: Dayana Mustak

Presented by: Khoo Hsu Chuang, Philip See, Wong Shou Ning

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories:

Tags: automotive, auto sales, EVs, sales tax holiday, porsche, thailand

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) In a global debt market of over $100 trillion, the Shariah-compliant Sukuk market has just crossed its own major milestone: $1 trillion. But what exactly are these Islamic financial instruments, how do they differ from conventional debt, and what's driving their rapid growth? Bashar Al Natoor, Global Head of Islamic Finance at Fitch Ratings, joins us to get into all this and more.

12:00 PM

Popcorn Culture

(REPEAT) In the spirit of Merdeka and Malaysia Day, we review three local short films and then on Take 2 go through your favourite Malaysian movies.

1:00 PM

Cruise Control

(REPEAT) It's a review of the new, competitively-priced BYD Atto 2 in this week's episode. Tune in to hear Daniel's thoughts on this car.

2:00 PM

Matt-Splained

(REPEAT) Today, Rich Bradbury and Matt Armitage pose the most explosive question of all and ask: AI, ya basic?

3:00 PM

Earth Matters

(REPEAT) We speak to Dr. Non Arkaraprasertkul, Senior Expert at Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency, about his work on smart city projects across ASEAN and how technology, policy, and people’s needs can create greener, more livable cities.

4:00 PM

Bar None

(REPEAT) A local football agent joins us in this episode to talk about his world and what goes around in it. Is it as glamorous as it seems?

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Conversation features two women who are managing orchestras in Hungary and the UK.

PROGRAMMES