A team of local inventors has invented a charging station for future electric cars, writes Izwan Ismail

SINCE the beginning of this year, Prof Datuk Dr Norbik Bashah Idris Norbik and his 10 researchers at UTM Advanced Informatics School in Kuala Lumpur have been working hard in the lab. Their aim is to create a universal charging solution for electric cars. These are cars that run totally on battery instead of fuel, diesel or combination of feual and battery (hybrid).

Since they run fully on battery power, these new generations of green cars would need charging stations to be placed at strategic places around the country to replace petrol stations.

However, the issue that carmakers and the government face is the absent of a universal charger.

According to Norbik, the idea to develop the universal charger came when UTM had a discussion with the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water (KeTTA) and car makers like Nissan, Mitsubishi, Panasonic Engineering Malaysia and General Electric Malaysia.

Norbik says there are electric car chargers available today but none are capable of providing universal charging capability to different electric cars with different electrical power needs.

Based on two industry chargers from Panasonic and GE, Norbik started to work on an Open Charge Point Protocol or OCPP that could provide charging capability at multiple amphere.

This would enable all types of electric cars to be charged using a single charger.

“The MyEV project is now completed and once the pillars are customised, we will give back to the manufacturers like Panasonic and GE to produce for the Malaysian market,” says Norbik.

He says MyEV is intended for general public use, for example at shopping malls (KLCC, Lot10, Pavilion, Midvalley Megamall, 1Utama, etc), airports, universities, offices, public car parks as well as at R&R along the highways. Being universal, it does have special cabling in order to provide higher charging power requirements.

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