Sustainable Development in Malaysia

The advantage of Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) & Hybrid Vehicle

The Malaysia Natural Gas Vehicles or known as NGV was initially developed and launched in 1998, when Petronas created Enviro 2000 the first NGV taxis use on Malaysia Roads.

Natural Gas Vehicles is the cleanest burning transportation fuels. Why?

• Natural gas does not contaminate lakes or rivers because it quickly dissipates into atmosphere
• Produce less greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide which leads to global warming.
• Reduce heavy duty particles such as nitrogen oxides
• Reduce noise pollution

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In July 2012, Honda announced that they will produce Hybrid Car locally. The first Hybrid Car assembly in Malaysia is Honda Jazz Hybrid at Honda plant, Melaka.

Hybrid car is a car that uses two power sources to move the car which are diesel fuel and electric motor. However, It is not a new invention. This technology has been introduced around 19^th century.  What is Hybrid about?

When the car comes to a stop, engine will shut off and restarts when accelerator is pressed. These save energy during idling or when you are stuck in a long traffic jam.

Otherwise, when the driver brakes, the car loses kinetic energy. The brakes get hot. Energy came from the fuel, and now it is wasted. Hybrid stored energy during braking. Energy that produces by motor during braking and coasting will be stored in battery and use back for electric motor. The stored energy in batteries can power the vehicle for 241 km or more.

The best benefit of them all, Hybrid and NGV have lower emission of carbon dioxide. Not only that, Hybrid and NGV car user can benefit from the incentives that government is currently giving out to promote the usage of hybrid and NGV vehicle and at the same time to lower 40% of carbon emission by 2020. There is a drawback about purchasing hybrid car where they are more expensive and the cost for maintaining an NGV vehicle is also high.