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Geely has set up shop in Thailand and will be entering Australia and New Zealand next year – all right-hand-drive (RHD) markets – but the carmaker remains committed to Malaysia as its regional production and R&D hub.
“Geely remains dedicated to its initial pledge of making AHTV the regional production and R&D hub for the ASEAN markets,” Ash Sutcliffe, PR director of the Geely Holding Group told paultan.org in response to questions on the company’s commitment to Proton and Malaysia.
Automotive Hi-Tech Valley (AHTV) was announced in April 2022 as an international automotive hub for NEVs (new energy vehicles, China’s term for electrified vehicles), spearheaded by Geely. AHTV is in the Tanjung Malim area, which is also the home of Proton.

“Geely will enter and establish dealer networks in Proton’s non-existent markets, starting with NEV products to build brand reputation, which will be complementary to Proton’s existing products,” Sutcliffe added. This means that both Proton and Geely brands will not enter the same markets – while Proton was previously present in Thailand and Australia, the Malaysian brand has since ceased operations in those markets.
“Geely will leverage its resources in these markets, either to assist Proton’s future entry or to export products from Malaysia using AHTV as a production hub, maximizing synergies with Proton and our partner DRB-Hicom,” Geely’s PR chief said. Full context here.
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Proton New Energy Technology (Pro-Net) dan pengendali JomCharge, EV Connection (EVC) berjaya membuat satu perjanjian untuk menyediakan pengecas kenderaan elektrik (EV) kepada 100 kondominium yang pada masa ini masih belum mempunyai sebarang pengecas dan memberikan […]
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Proton New Energy Technology (Pro-Net) and JomCharge operator EV Connection (EVC) have struck a deal to provide free electric vehicle chargers to 100 condominiums that do not currently have charging facilities, as well as lower charging rates for the circa-70 condos already on the JomCharge network.
The Pro-Net-EVC Condominium EV Charging Infrastructure Programme, as it’s so called, allows the management of condos to apply for these free EV chargers through the EVC website. Once approved by both EVC and Pro-Net, successful applicants will be eligible for the charger itself as well as the all infrastructure work required, covered compliance costs, a charger management system and the porting onto the JomCharge network.
Also provided as part of the deal is a profit/revenue-sharing mechanism, letting building management earn some money from it. Condo charging rates are set at RM0.70 per kWh, and starting next year, owners of smart EVs and the forthcoming Proton eMas 7 will receive a 10% lower rate of RM0.63 per kWh. The companies claim this is almost as low as Tenaga Nasional’s electricity tariff for landed properties. Users at existing condo charging facilities with time-based rates will get a similar discount.

The collaboration is an expansion of an existing joint venture between Pro-Net and EVC that currently manages the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of home wallbox chargers for the smart brand, having completed more than 400 installations to date. The..

Menerusi SUV EV Geely Galaxy E5 (atau dikenali sebagai EX5 untuk pasaran luar China), kembar Proton eMas 7 yang dihasilkan terus dalam versi pemanduan sebelah kiri (LHD) dan pemanduan sebelah kanan (RHD), Geely kini nampaknya […]
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Kembar Proton eMas 7, Geely EX5 (Geely Galaxy E5 di China) telah masuk pasaran antarabangsa pertamanya di Thailand. Dilancarkan ketuka Thai Moto Expo yang sedang berlangsung, EX5 diimport sepenuhnya dari China, sama seperti kembarnya di […]
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The launches of the EX5 (or Geely Galaxy E5, or Proton eMas 7) in Thailand, and Aletra in Indonesia, mean that Geely per se is now in these major ASEAN markets. The Chinese giant has also formalised its entry into Australia and New Zealand (set to happen in 1H 2025), the latter via a partnership with Giltrap Group.
These all happened this week alone – a real RHD-market onslaught if we ever saw one. But when Proton and Geely got married in 2017, the promise then was to use the Proton brand for right-hand drive (RHD) and ASEAN markets, making Malaysia Geely’s regional RHD hub.
With Geely, not Proton, now in ASEAN’s two biggest car markets, how will the oft-repeated goal to make Proton No 3 in the region be achieved?

The choice of Geely as the brand to enter Australia instead of Proton is also something to think about deeply. After all, Proton was Down Under from 1995 to 2017, with the Jumbuck (Arena) being its most successful model. The idea that Geely’s global brand awareness and equity have grown to levels deemed sufficient to relegate the Malaysian brand’s 22 years in Australia, creates many different emotions.
There are also rumours that Geely is going to enter South Africa – a market that Proton is already in – and we suspect this Cape Town ain’t big enough for the both of them. The Proton brand is indeed used in RHD markets like Bangladesh, Kenya and Pakistan, but they are largely (Brunei, Mauritius, Mozambique etc) not big markets and one wonders if th..

Hasil daripada kerjasama antara Proton dengan MYTV dan ACO Tech, anda kini boleh menonton tv digital dalam Proton X70, menggunakan aplikasi MYTV Mana-Mana . Menteri komunikasi, Fahmi Fadzil sewaktu pelancaran aplikasi tersebut semalam berkata, jumlah […]
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Proton mengumumkan bahawa jentera lumba S70 pasukan R3 yang berlumba di perlumbaan endurance Sepang 1000KM hujung minggu lalu bakal dipamerkan di Kuala Lumpur International Mobility Show (KLIMS) 2024 yang akan berlangsung bermula 5 hingga 11 […]
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Pasukan Hirev Dream Chaser membuat kejutan di perlumbaan Sepang 1000KM 2024 yang berakhir malam semalam, di mana pasukan persendirian berkenaan berjaya menumpaskan tiga pasukan rasmi pengeluar yang berlumba tahun ini iaitu pasukan Proton R3, Honda […]
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You can now watch digital TV in your Proton X70 via the MYTV Mana-Mana content streaming app, thanks to a collaboration between MYTV, Aco Tech and Proton.
Communications minister Fahmi Fadzil said yesterday that the MYTV digital terrestrial TV platform’s viewership is currently at around 7.5 million, Bernama reports.
“I’ve been informed that MYTV and the Commercial Radio Malaysia (CRM) association plan to engage with the investment, trade and industry ministry (MITI) to explore the feasibility of integrating this application into the infotainment head units of vehicles, including EVs,” he said.

Fahmi added that MYTV has made efforts to introduce the digital TV service on Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad‘s (KTMB) business-class carriages, and that it could make its way to in-flight entertainment in the future as well.
Founded in 2014, MYTV provides free digital terrestrial television in Malaysia. There are over 30 TV channels and radio stations, and a lot of movies, series and documentaries too – check it out here.
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