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Transportation Ministry struggles to speed up EV adoption
The Transportation Ministry continues to push for the use of electric vehicles (EVs), but the charging infrastructure needs to grow fast to meet a 2030 deadline.
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An electric Transjakarta bus stops on Jl. Sudirman in Central Jakarta in this undated photograph. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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he Transportation Ministry continues to push for electric vehicle (EV) adoption with the aim to reduce carbon emissions, the ministry’s land transportation director, Budi Setiyadi, has said.
Presidential Regulation No. 55/2019 stipulates a road map for accelerating EV adoption as part of the government’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 29 percent by 2030. It includes stipulations on EVs for government use and urban transit.
As of November, Indonesia had some 14,400 EVs on the road, according to Budi, including 1,656 four-wheelers, 12,464 two-wheelers and 262 three-wheelers.
“Now the question is how we accelerate the use of electric cars and motorbikes,” he said in a statement issued on Monday.
He added that the ministry had discussed with the National Standardization Agency (BSN) measures to encourage electric motorcycle producers to make standardized batteries so as to simplify battery exchange and charging.
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Furthermore, Budi said, the ministry was planning to acquire 40 electric buses through a buy-the-service (BTS) scheme in Surabaya, East Java, and 20 in Bandung, West Java.
