That is the Perodua eMO EV concept, the headlining act of the Malaysia Autoshow (MAS) 2025 that opens to the press today at MAEPS Serdang. That is the third episode of the Electric Motion Online, after P2 wheeled out the eMO-II concept on the Kuala Lumpur International Mobility Show (KLIMS) late last 12 months.
That is the ultimate rehearsal before the the production automobile – Perodua’s first electric vehicle – debuts in Q4 2025. It comes every week after the primary spyshots of the camouflaged EV surfaced online. Those images, which show a wide-stanced hatchback with big wheels, is a refreshing sight within the EV arena, a giant contrast with the cutesy jellybean shaped EVs from China equivalent to the Geely Star Wish a.k.a. upcoming Proton eMas 5, and the TQ Wuling Bingo.
The eMO-II from KLIMS, a five-door hatchback, has morphed right into a SUV crossover form of automobile that reminds us of the Toyota C-HR. Perodua says that it got down to create a automobile with a ‘sporty silhouette with strong side character’ and ‘higher ground clearance to present crossover looks and a sporty image’.
There are not any dimensions yet, but Perodua president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad calls it a ‘small B’. To our eyes the eMO is larger than the Myvi and can easily dwarf over the upcoming eMas 5 and Bingo, EVs that may play within the sub-RM100 bracket that Perodua is targeting (the Bingo is CKD and shall be priced below RM100k, and Proton will eventually assemble its junior EV in Tg Malim).
In February, Zainal floated a possible RM80,000 starting price for the corporate’s EV, but without the battery, and he has now confirmed that P2’s EV will offer Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) battery leasing – a primary in Malaysia.
Said battery is a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) unit sourced from CATL, with a goal range of between 400 to 410 km. The performance goal is a 0-100 km/h time of between six and 7 seconds and top speed of around 165 km/h.
“The battery shall be leased to buyers. The ‘rental’ fee is the minimum, and based on surveys by Perodua, many are in favour of this method,” Zainal said then, adding that the EV battery leasing scheme lowers the fee of the automobile and ensures that owners will all the time have a battery in the perfect condition.
One other major concern that most people has about EVs – and P2 prospects surely aren’t the kind that ‘can afford’ or are willing to lose a giant chunk of the automobile’s purchase price – is resale value. It’s plain to see that depreciation for EVs are way beyond the extent we’ve seen with ICE cars – the danger of a degraded battery that shall be very costly to interchange is factored within the poor RV. Battery leasing erases this issue.
Nevertheless, there will even be the choice of buying the automobile with the battery outright. Buy the battery and also you’ll get an ordinary warranty of eight years, Zainal says. Pre-production will start in September and Perodua is heading in the right direction to fulfil its promise to launch this self-developed EV (Daihatsu has no suitable donor automobile, this platform is P2’s IP) in Q4 2025. Production will start at a rate of 500 units a month in a brand new EV plant in Sg Choh.
We’ll return with more info. For now, try the Perodua eMO EV final prototype and tell us what you think that.
GALLERY: Perodua eMO final prototype at MAS 2025
GALLERY: Perodua eMO-II Concept at KLIMS 2024
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This Article First Appeared At paultan.org
