AEML: Electric Motors Become Low Hanging Fruit Indonesian EV Industry

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JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Electric Vehicle (EV) Association of Electrical Mobility Ecosystems (AEML) Rian Ernest said Indonesia had the opportunity to become a big player in electric vehicles (EV) if it made electric motorcycles a low hanging fruit (business opportunities that are easy to reach and can be taken quickly).

"Actually, AEML encourages the two wheels actually. So, when it comes to the opportunity for Indonesia to become a player (player) in electric vehicles, maybe low hanging fruit in two wheels," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, August 23.

According to him, there are 120 million motorbikes that use gasoline in Indonesia, while new electric motorcycle users are around 100 thousand or 0.1 percent of the total types of motorcycles.

This indicates that Indonesia has great potential to develop and assemble electric motors as an effort to oversee the electric vehicle ecosystem.

"We've been around for years, we've been assembling motorbikes in Indonesia for decades, how come we can't do that (electric motorbikes). That's why (types of domestic motorbikes such as) Gesits were born, Alva was born, Electrum was born. Well, our job at AEML is to oversee this ecosystem so that it can continue to survive," said Rian.

He considers that efforts to develop an electric vehicle ecosystem in the country are long-term games.

Therefore, a large contribution from the government is needed to make it easier for stakeholders in the industry, such as providing incentives and so on.

"We continue to encourage the government's contribution, incentives from the government. And we discuss together with the government, because the successful lessons learned from China really need a lot of support and support from the government in the midst of various government homeworks with a lot of fiscal ones," he said.

He is optimistic that the development of the local electric vehicle industry will increase, especially the two-wheeled industry.

AEML itself is said to own local electric motorcycle industry members, such as Electrum, Alva, Viar, to Volta.

"That's a local industry that actually continues to fight in an industry that is actually still infant. Therefore, our AEML is an advocacy institution that fights for the interests of our members. We discussed, had a dialogue, and we realized that fellow stakeholders from the government side were also happy to get discussion friends," said Rian.