BYD is leading Malaysia's adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), less than a year since it entered our markets, according to data sourced by RHB Research. The bank's recent report shared that BYD accounted for 37% of the total local EV sphere in Malaysia in 2023. In total, BYD sold 3,728 cars here last year. That number is more than one-thirds of the total units of BEVs sold in Malaysia last year, which stands at 10,159 units. In itself this represents a 286% rise compared to 2022, making

Plastics are everywhere around us. From the containers we use to pack lunches to even the air we breathe the electronic device you’re reading this article on. It’s also in cars and the average vehicle has 30,000 parts. Out of those, one-third or 10,000 of those parts are made of plastic so even if the material is hazardous to the environment, we’re very much reliant on it. Mazda though has a solution for a more environmentally friendly plastic and it has been developing it for years before carbo

GWM Malaysia announced that Elliot Zhang, President of Great Wall Motor ASEAN Region presented an Ora Good Cat 500 Ultra to YBhg. Datuk Seri Isham Ishak, Secretary General, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), to conduct a series of test drives over the next few months to learn more about electric vehicles. This demonstrates GWM’s commitment to promote sustainable transportation solutions, and assist the Malaysian Government in its efforts and plans for Malaysia to become a carbo

The Suzuki Jimny is apparently all the rage now. Despite the internet complaining about its price, the first two shipments have already been sold out. It’s clear that if you found the right niche, what the internet thinks doesn’t matter at all. Before the Jimny, it was the Swift Sport (ZC33S) that spearheaded Suzuki’s re-entry to Malaysia and it too had pricing complaints. But we’ve been told that there are far less units sold compared to the Jimny, even if the Swift Sport is cheaper and offers

The last model produced with a combustion engine had left Volkswagen's iconic Zwickau plant on 26th June 2020. The seventh-generation Golf R Estate with a 2.0-litre petrol engine in Oryx White Pearl Effect was produced for a customer in Germany. After that, only electric models of Volkswagen as well as sister brands, Audi and Seat will be produced in Zwickau. Since 1904, cars have been built in Zwickau beginning with the Horsch, but the plant had been infamous for producing the Trabant when Germ

Nobody's surprised here and nobody is going to argue with the verdict of the panel of judges – the C-segment Mazda 3 has just been crowned the 2020 World Car Design of the Year. Among the experts on the panel are Gordon Murray (McLaren F1), Ian Callum (all recent Jaguars), Patrick le Quément (Renault Avantime), and Shiro Nakamura (Isuzu Vehicross, Nissan Cube). “Before accepting this prize, Mazda Motor Corporation would like to express our sympathy for all of those affected by the novel coronavi