Malaysian carmaker Proton plans to roll out its own hybrid electric vehicles by 2014, said the minister for international trade and industry in a Parliament session. But it will do it with technological help from UK-based Frazer-Nash Research in a collaborative project costing RM500 million because the carmaker does not have the research and development capabilities of the multi-national companies currently making green cars, noted the minister.
Proton has been producing budget cars for export and domestic use since it began as joint venture using Mitsubishi technology in 1983.
Malaysia’s transportation sector is the second-largest energy consumer in the country and energy efficient cars are part the government’s plan to reduce energy demand.
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