For most drivers, seeing your car’s range drop to zero kilometres can be panic-inducing, and could prompt a hike to the nearest fuel station to bring back a bottle or two of petrol. Imagine if it happened with an electric vehicle (EV) and there was no charger in sight to juice up the car.
Engineer Russell Ng had this happen with his Proton e.MAS 7 – The battery in the vehicle went totally flat while he was on the road. But he said he barely broke a sweat. “No big deal,” said Mr Ng, who bought the car in February, just two months after Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim launched the electric SUV.
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