The recent announcement by the government on tax breaks for non-luxury hybrid cars is most welcome. With the continuously volatile price of crude in the market and the fact that hydrocarbon fossil fuel will run out one day, taking a forward looking move to encourage the use of energy efficient vehicles couldn't come a day sooner.
The new ruling provides a tax break for a period of time after which is it envisaged that Malaysia may become the hybrid and electric motors de facto tech and manufacturing destination in the region. Good idea, but the jury's still out.
Over the weekend I supported a cause against the building of 12 hydro electric dams in the East of my dear country. I saw two sides of the story. On one hand, we needed more power on the other, we were going to eat away at someones home to get it.
You may be asking what the two stories have to do with each other. Well here's what I'm thinking: we want to have electric cars but we don't have enough juice to power them.
Where's the balance?
What's going to happen when 10% of the population has an electric car. What happens when that's 50%? Or maybe 80%? How much more electricity are we going to need?
I'm no electrical engineer. But putting 2 and 2 together, it doesn't take a genius to know that we're going to yank more kilowatts to power out jetsons-like road vehicles.
Sure this isn't' going to happen anytime soon. But when it does, would we have already shot ourselves in the groin?
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