Malaysia does not implement an end-of-life vehicle policy for old vehicles given its impracticality, but encourages the people to move towards carbon-free electric vehicle (EV) ownership or public transportation usage.
Transport Minister Anthony Loke said such policy could not be implemented as the Ministry took into account the socio-economic needs of the country as well as the people’s living needs against dependence on private vehicles.
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Transport Minister Anthony Loke said such policy could not be implemented as the Ministry took into account the socio-economic needs of the country as well as the people’s living needs against dependence on private vehicles.
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00:00 Environmentally Sustainable Trust of Malaysia 2025, please turn to the screen.
00:07 To more environmentally conscious world.
00:14 Let us take a moment to give a round of applause to the organizers and wish them the very best.
00:23 First of all, Malaysia is very pleased to host this high level 15 regional environmentally sustainable transport forum in Asia.
00:31 We ask what do we do with our old cars, a lot of very old cars on the road.
00:37 Yes, that's true. We do not have a policy for end of life for vehicles, unlike some developed countries.
00:48 Because that is a so practical reason, we cannot just implement end of life for vehicles.
00:55 What we are doing is a slowly transitioning, that's why we are so, government is so focusing and so helping in terms of transitioning to EVs.
01:08 That's why we have a national EV task force in terms of looking at various policies and various incentives to encourage Malaysians to transform to EVs.
01:20 One particular example that we are embarking on is that during our national budget presentation two weeks ago,
01:30 the Minister of Finance has announced that we give special incentives, RM2400 for any adoption of e-bikes, e-motorbikes.
01:40 So this is to phase out some of the older bikes.
01:44 Of course, moving forward we are also looking at other options, not only motorbikes but also probably going to vehicles as well, cars as well.
01:56 So those are the things that we have to transition in an orderly manner.
02:01 While we are fully aware that we have to contribute towards reducing carbon emission,
02:08 but we also have to be practical in terms of looking at the status of our socio-economic development.
02:15 We do not want to create an environment or condition where our people cannot afford for these changes.
02:24 So any changes must be guided, must be in transitional mode.
02:29 And the government of course is playing our part in terms of helping the people to adopt to these changes.
02:35 Thank you.
02:36 [End of Audio]