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IBC to produce 21,000 standard battery packs for two-wheeler EVs
Indonesia Battery Corporation introduces a common standard for electric two-wheelers battery, allowing users to charge or swap their battery despite different vehicle brands.
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo straps on his helmet before test riding an electric motorbike produced by Gesits in the front yard of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday, following a meeting to discuss mass production of the bike. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A.)
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tate-owned Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC) has launched the Battery Assessment Management Service (BAMS), a platform that can serve as a common standard for two-wheeler electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
IBC plans to produce 21,000 battery packs for BAMS this year, 15,000 of which will be deployed for electric two-wheelers and the remainder will be directed to battery-swapping stations, according to State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry.
Toto Nugroho, director of IBC, told reporters on Monday that the initiative was designed to address major challenges in developing the EV ecosystem, which often revolve around inadequate and unintegrated EV-charging infrastructure.
“This is an ecosystem of electric two-wheelers capable of accommodating users of several brands, as well as conventional-to-EV conversions,” Toto said during the launch of BAMS in Jakarta.
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As of Nov. 17, 2022, Indonesia had 439 charging stations in 328 locations, mostly in Java, and 961 battery-swap stations in 961 locations spread across the country, according to Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry data.
These figures only represent a fraction of the total 31,000 new charging stations that state-owned electricity monopoly PLN estimates Indonesia will need to accommodate over 326,000 EVs on the road by 2030.
