Street light and charger, 24/7.
Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah’s (UMPSA’s) Pekan campus now hides EV sockets in plain sight, with lamp-posts that light the road and top up batteries day and night.
Making the venture possible is a cast list that’s short and sweet. Windcraft Energy supplies the solar lighting; charge point operator EV Plus Mobility runs the back end, app and payments, while the university handles the hardware and research.
Three public bays outside the Faculty of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Technology each have a Type 2 cable and deliver up to 7kW AC. It’s a flat RM5 per session via the EVlution app; RFID is supposedly supported by design. The hardware, we are told, is built to scale to 22 kW AC later.
Next up: 1,000 lamp-posts nationwide. By tapping existing street-lamp power, EV Plus aims to add kerbside charging without tearing up pavements — useful for city drivers who park on the street and can’t install a wallbox.
The partners have also signed a Memorandum of Agreement to make the task delegation official. Under the deal, UMPSA leads engineering, scale models and smart-payment research, while Penang-based EV Plus handles the payment gateway and app integration and supplies components for testing.
If it feels familiar, London and Amsterdam already run thousands of similar posts for overnight AC top-ups. Pekan’s setup brings that kerbside convenience to Malaysia, one street lamp at a time.
As an aside, Scottish startup Trojan Energy has begun installing flushed-to-the pavement chargers in London for even more stealthy charging.
