Electric Car Kick Let Sell in Indonesia

One of the obstacles to the implementation of electric vehicles in Indonesia
is the selling price that will be more expensive. Because, vehicles have additional technology so that an incentive is needed in order to reduce this.

ITB Electricity Engineering Expert Agus Purwadi said the selling price of cars in Indonesia was very important. Therefore, if a car wants to sell well in Indonesia, it must be cheap or affordable. Other factors such as the sophistication of features until the convenience of placing in the umpteenth number.

"For the user aspect, the most important of the electric cars is efficiency (the price is cheaper. Red). That was first. Number one. Then convenience number two," he said at Seminar Indonesia - Japan Automotive themed Electrified Vehicle Concept of xEV and Well to Wheel, Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia (Ministry of Industry), Jakarta, Tuesday (1/29/2019).

Agus' statement is based on the sales of Low Cost Green Car (LCGC) cars. In fact, the comfort of the car is arguably not too satisfying.

"We'll see, why can LCGC be successful until now? That's because the efficiency is built. Well, even though there is comfort, there are trade-offs," he said.

Aware of this, the Ministry of Industry's Director of Maritime Industry, Transportation Equipment and Defense Equipment Putu Juli Ardika also stated that electric vehicles would be given a large incentive to be able to 'live' in Indonesia.

"We will provide more incentives for electric vehicles and proxy engines (compressed natural gas or CNG), especially in biofuels," said Putu.Visit here

Still on the same occasion, Ichiro Kutani, Senior Research Fellow of The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) also briefly stated the importance of incentives for electric vehicles to be affordable.

"At the very least, in Indonesia there are two challenges that must be faced. One of them is the price of electric vehicles. Because, electric vehicle batteries are still expensive so that in the future a technology that can reduce costs itself is needed," he concluded.