Malaysia’s NGV retail supply to end by July 2025, MoT launches transition program
The Malaysian Ministry of Transport (MoT) has announced that the supply of NGV (Natural Gas for Vehicles), is being phased out. The licensing of NGV vehicles will also end come July 1st, 2025 and no new NGV vehicles will be eligible for licensing.
This comes from a decision that was made by the council of ministers on October 2nd, 2024 to phase out the fuel supply and use. With NGV vehicles only accounting for 0.2% of the registered vehicles (except for motorcycles), and with Petronas being the only retail supplier of the fuel, the government has decided to phase it out.
According to the MoT, there are about 44,383 registered NGV vehicles within the last 3 years. This number comprises of 9,509 taxis and ride service vehicles, 32,137 private registered vehicles, 2,150 buses and lorries, and 587 other machineries. There are essentially 2 types of NGV vehicles:
- Dual-fuel: Modified vehicles which run on both petrol and NGV (over 95% of registered NGV vehicles are of this type)
- Mono-fuel: Pure NGV vehicles which are fully imported (mono-fuel)
With the phase out of NGV, the MoT is introducing a transition program for current NGV vehicles known as the “Program Bantuan Peralihan Kenderaan NGV”.
There are 3 different packages for this transition program:
- Transition package for qualified NGV taxi drivers
– Application deadline: December 31st, 2024 - NGV kit removal package for modified dual-fuel NGV vehicles
– Application deadline: April 30th, 2025 - Cash buy package with one-off payment for mono-fuel NGV vehicles
– Application deadline: December 31st, 2025
The full details of the transition package can be found in the images attached in this article. Applications must be done through www.peralihanngv.com
Starting July 1st, 2025, all dual-fuel vehicles will be automatically registered as petrol vehicles and they will incur the LKM fees as a normal petrol car.
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