Tesla gets the green light to establish head office in MY

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The Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) in Malaysia has approved Tesla’s application to import Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) into the country. This will see Tesla establishing a head office in Malaysia, introducing Tesla Experience Centres and Tesla Service Centres, and establish its Supercharger network. When the office will be established remains unclear.

TESLA’s presence in Malaysia is expected to create skilled and better paying job opportunities for workers in the BEV segment and increase the participation of local companies in the Tesla ecosystem both domestically and globally. Tengku Zafrul Aziz, MITI Minister said that the move demonstrates Tesla’s confidence in Malaysia’s economic fundamentals and conducive business environment.

“Even as major global brands decide to invest and re-invest in Malaysia, MITI and its agencies will continue to enhance efforts to improve the ease of doing business, while continuously profiling Malaysia as pro-trade, pro-industry and pro-investment,” he said.

“We will also strategically leverage on our established Electrical & Electronics ecosystem to make Malaysia the preferred investment destination for technology related to electric mobility,” he added.

The entry of Tesla has been facilitated by MITI through the introduction of the BEV Global Leaders initiative which aims to help boost BEV demand in the local market and further promote the development of the entire ecosystem to support BEV adoption. In addition, the initiative seeks to secure investments from leading global BEV manufacturing companies in Malaysia. Tesla is the first applicant of this initiative by MITI.

Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS), subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms, also announced its plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Malaysia. The launch aims to give developers, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organisations a greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centres located in Malaysia. In a statement to the press, AWS’ commitment includes a plan to invest approximately RM 25.5 billion in Malaysia by 2037.

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Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim said AWS’ commitment is the largest international technology investment to date in Malaysia, “which will advance the Malaysia Madani vision of a highly skilled, innovative, prosperous, and sustainable economy.” Additionally, he said that launching AWS in Malaysia is a vote of support for Malaysia's leadership in the global digital economy.

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