Bali Will Modify 400.000 Fossil-Fueled Motorcycles Into Electric Power

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DENPASAR - Head of the Bali Transportation Service, I Gede Wayan Samsi Gunarta, said the plan was to convert 400.000 motorcycles from fossil fuels into electric power. The goal is to achieve the Bali Clean Energy program.

"We have a migration target from fossil-fuel vehicles to electric vehicles in five years, at least 23 percent. One of the efforts to accelerate this is to convert fossil-fueled vehicles to electric vehicles," Gunarta said when met at the Bali Transportation Agency office, Friday, October 22.

"We have 23 percent of the 2.7 million (two-wheeled vehicles in Bali) that must be immediately conferred in 2025, around 400 thousand. Anyway, the migration target is that much for motorcycles," he added.

What must be prepared to achieve this target is human resources, including certified workshop facilities. HR training will also be conducted.

“But we haven't set the overall target yet, but from our plan, we actually facilitate community friends and are assisted by PT Optima Integra. Then cooperate with our cooperative, the target is 300 people. They can also help (and) the contents (training) of introductions first to motorcycles, what are their capabilities, then what are the provisions and so on," he explained.

Currently, the conversion is being carried out in stages towards the government's plan that gasoline-fueled vehicles will no longer be sold by 2030.

“We have to look for opportunities that might accelerate the migration from fossil fuel vehicles to electricity. Starting from 2020, we have set the target from 2021 to 2045 actually," explained Gunarta.

There will also be an electric vehicle charging station in Bali with 20 environmentally friendly stations.

"So for public electric vehicle charging stations. Then, later there will be a swab battery, it's possible for the chargers to have everything (the rules) including later providing electricity that is more environmentally friendly," he said.