Announce Latest Collaboration, Grab Support the Realization of the Electric Vehicle Ecosystem in Indonesia

Basically, technology is developed to accelerate people's lives. One of the implementations is in the environmental sector, through innovation and collaboration to reduce the impact of carbon emissions. Speaking of innovative collaborations, Grab Indonesia recently announced its latest collaboration with Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Indonesia and World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia, in an effort to develop an environmentally friendly transportation system.

Entering the global agenda - including Indonesia - handling carbon emissions is one of the main issues to realize the welfare of the world community that is sustainable. The use of electric vehicles is an example of how technology is considered capable of addressing climate and environmental issues with the transition method to clean energy. In his statement, Grab Indonesia started this innovation through a collaborative initiative with ITS Indonesia and WRI Indonesia, in smoothing commitment and real action to support joint efforts in presenting environmentally friendly transportation.

As a platform super app, Support Grab Indonesia has contributed to this effort by launching 20 Public Electric Vehicle Battery Exchange Stations (SPBKLU) points in DKI Jakarta, and 7 SPBKLU points in Bali Province. Meanwhile, Grab also provides a fleet of more than 8,500 electric vehicles, which are claimed to be able to reduce around 4.600 tons of carbon emissions, or the equivalent of absorbing CO2 from 200 thousand trees a year.

president of Grab Indonesia, Ridzki Kramadibrata in his release said support Grab Indonesia together with ITS Indonesia and WRI Indonesia in realizing environmentally friendly transportation is a follow-up step that has been planned several years ago. He stated that this step would continue until the expected target was achieved.

"We are ready to support Indonesia to make a big leap in developing the country's electric vehicle ecosystem and strengthen this commitment with ITS and WRI. Use of electric vehicles Grab has started since 2019 with the #StepHijau program and currently we operate 8.500 units of electric vehicles in several cities. We will continue to support the increase in the use of electric vehicles by targeting our total fleet to be more than 14.000 this year, so that electric vehicles are more affordable and easily accessible to the public," said Ridzki.

In 2019, DailySocial had time report about the plan Grab developing electric vehicle projects in Indonesia. It didn't take long, in the same year Grab formally introduce electric vehicle trial project which is run in the Jabodetabek area, by operating 20 units of electric cars, and 20 units of electric motorbikes which are the result of a strategic partnership with big players in the automotive industry such as Hyundai and AHM. At that time it was said, the trial project was part of a big plan Grab in building an electric vehicle ecosystem in Indonesia, after previously, in neighboring countries Grab has also successfully implemented hundreds of electric vehicles operating on the streets of Singapore.

Through the latest collaboration that has been carried out, it is not difficult if Grab Indonesia is able to realize a comprehensive electric vehicle ecosystem in Indonesia. Given, a collaborative effort Grab Recently, Indonesia was considered successful in embracing various key-stakeholders who should be able to encourage the realization of this plan. Apart from vehicle research and supply, Grab Indonesia also partners with many state-owned companies in Indonesia, one of them is PLN to provide SPKLU.

It is interesting to look forward to the next innovative collaboration from Grab Indonesia, not only from a business perspective, but also the discourse on promoting sustainable development through the environment, is certainly a step that should be supported.