The Electric Vehicle Program Becomes The Government's Effort To Reduce Dependence On Fuel Imports

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JAKARTA - Director of Electrical Engineering and Environment of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Dwinugroho said, the battery-based electric vehicle (KBLBB) program is one of the government's efforts to encourage domestic energy independence through reducing dependence on imported fuel.

"In managing the energy sector, the government has an obligation to ensure national energy security. This effort is carried out by encouraging domestic energy independence through reducing dependence on imported fuel, one of which is the use of electric motorized vehicles for road transportation," said Dwinugroho, quoted from ANTARA, Monday, 25 July.

Dwinugroho said that his party noted that there were 332 units of SPKLU or charging stations in 279 public locations.

In addition, there are also 369 SPBKLU units or battery swap stations spread across Indonesia.

He added that the motor vehicle battery charging facility is also available in tourism destinations, for example in the G20 Presidency, 24 charging stations have been built at 17 locations on the island of Bali.

In addition, SPKLU has also been built at the Borobudur Temple and Labuan Bajo Tourism Park Complex in East Nusa Tenggara.

"We hope that with the increasing number of SPKLUs, coupled with more advanced charging technology, the process of recharging electric vehicle batteries only requires a battery charging time of between 30 and 90 minutes, so as to make electric cars more attractive to motorized vehicle users," he said.

Just to note, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is actively implementing a program for converting fuel motors to electric motors.

Since its launch on August 18, 2021 until the end of December 31, 2021, a series of processes have been carried out starting from the preparation of technical designs, budget and budget preparation, motorcycle preparation, component procurement process, training process, conversion process, resistance test of conversion results, type test process and process changes to STNK and BPKB in the police from 100 units of motorcycles operating vehicles of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

Throughout 2022, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources targets that 1,000 units of motorcycles from ministries and institutions and state-owned enterprises will be converted into electric motorcycles.

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is currently in the process of revising the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Regulation Number 13 of 2020 as an effort to accelerate the number of SPKLU and SPBKLU distributions through a more flexible licensing process and technical requirements and other incentives.