The Malaysian Inexperienced Know-how and Local weather Change Company (MGTC) has commenced its electrical bike battery swapping methods undertaking. Beginning tomorrow, December 10, 2024, the EV bike demonstration runs for a period of two months, till February 9, 2025.
This undertaking is aimed toward assessing the feasibility, advantages, and challenges of implementing battery swapping know-how to speed up the expansion of electrical bikes in Malaysia, in line with the agency. The electrical bike battery swapping demonstration run will cowl the Klang Valley through the aforementioned period, and can interact medium- and excessive mileage bike customers.
A complete of 40 electrical bikes will likely be deployed for this function, consisting of two fashions – the Blueshark R1 Lite, and the RydeEV Hyper, the tally consisting of an equal cut up of 20 items of every mannequin. These have a variety of between 100 km to 110 km, and a most velocity of between 80 km/h and 90 km/h.
This trial will likely be facilitated by the battery swapping networks of Blueshark and Oyika, for a complete of 29 EV bike battery swapping stations situated at petrol stations, comfort shops and procuring malls throughout the Klang Valley.
Members on this demonstration run are comprised of 5 organisations – Majlis Bandar Petaling Jaya (MBPJ), Zalora Malaysia, SPX Categorical, Foodpanda and Ions Know-how. Among the many taking part organisations, the allocation is 5 items for MBPJ, three items for Ions Know-how, 10 items for SPX Categorical, 10 items for Foodpanda and 12 items for Zalora.
Knowledge gathering will likely be integral to the EV bike battery swapping trial, which is to accumulate data such because the vary coated by the electrical bikes per cost, speeds attained, in addition to battery efficiency parameters together with battery cost instances, and cost retention.
This can even assess the efficiency and feasibility of EV bike battery swapping infrastructure, for facets resembling comfort, distance between battery swap stations, and whole battery swaps carried out throughout this trial.
Knowledge logging from the EV bikes used on this trial will likely be via {hardware} and software program by Blueshark and RydeEV for his or her respective bikes, and knowledge will likely be downloaded from every taking part machine on the finish of every month of the trial. Along with knowledge logging, the trial can even compile suggestions from the EV bike customers on the finish of the programme.
In keeping with MGTC group CEO Shamsul Bahar Mohd Nor, electrical bikes, even with battery swapping providers, faces obstacles when it comes to rider acceptance attributable to restricted stations which limit entry and vary, and excessive preliminary infrastrcture prices for operators.
“In mild of this, we created this demonstration to evaluate the viability, benefits, and difficulties of switching to electrical bikes in Malaysia. We consider technological and monetary feasibility, study client and market wants, and develop strategic options for long-term scalability,” Shamsul mentioned.
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