The Perodua QV-E, billed as Malaysia’s first homegrown EV, was officially launched yesterday. We’ve covered the project extensively through the episodes, and have posted not just on the car (deep dive here), but showed you all of the ancillaries such as the P-Circle app, P-Charge Mobile ‘powerbank’, the P-Go smartwatch and the AC wallbox that has a CCTV and screen. Click the links to read more.
Safety should be the most important aspect in a car, yet most of the time, it’s left behind the scenes – things like EV specs, performance and design are somehow more attractive, and tend to dominate the headlines and attention. Safety is bit like that vital holding midfielder who doesn’t get many goals – even ‘keepers get their flowers when they make good saves – but when he’s not playing…
The QV-E’s safety department is lengkap. There’s no need to elaborate on P2’s Advanced Safety Assist suite (ASA, available since 2017, offered on the Bezza since 2020) and driver assist features like ACC (since 2021 with the Ativa, but radar-based instead of camera on the QV-E), but there are some new safety kit debuting in the QV-E.
Remember the cases of children dying of heatstroke after being left in parked cars? The new Child Presence Detection (CPD) uses millimetre-wave to detect movement and breathing in the second row, even if the child is under fabric covering. If the car is turned off and CPD detects that a child is still in the cabin, it will sound the horn and flash the lights. The second stage of warning involves app and SMS notifications.
CPD works at night too, and up to 85°C. As for pet parents, yes, CPD also detects your furry child like it would with a human kid. Separately, there’s also an SOS call button above the rear view mirror, which you can press in case of an accident or emergency. It’s linked to Perodua Auto Assist and MERS 999 rescue services.
The proof of the safety pudding is in the NCAP score, and the QV-E has been awarded the full five stars by ASEAN NCAP in the current 2021-2025 protocol. The EV achieved a total score of 88.36 points, with Adult Occupant Protection (AOP) at 29.31 points out of 32 (weighted score 36.63), and Child Occupant Protection at 42.67 points out of 51 (weighted score 16.73).
In the Safety Assist segment, it’s 21/21 (SA weighted score 20), and the QV-E posted 12/16 in the Motorcyclist Safety area (MS weighted score 15). Again, the overall score is 88.36 points for the maximum five stars – we’ve attached the full report card below.
What should we compare this against? Fellow EV Proton eMas 5 is yet to be crash tested by ASEAN NCAP, but interestingly, the safety body recently crushed a Toyota Yaris Cross at its PC3 facility in Melaka. The report card for that car stated ‘Production Malaysia for Malaysia market’ and we know that the B-SUV will be introduced here both as a Toyota and Perodua, with the latter rumoured to be called Nexis or Traz.
In the same protocol, the Yaris Cross bagged the full five stars with a score of 83.02. The SUV’s AOP score is 29.28 points out of 32, COP 44.17 out of 51, SA 17.74 out of 21 and MS 9.76 out of 16. Zooming in, the Yaris Cross’ overall score is dragged down by its MS score, while the SA falls short of the QV-E’s perfect rating, resulting in a lower overall score of around five points.
If you only focus on the actual crash test portion, AOP has the biggest weightage at 40%, and here, the QV-E’s 29.31 points compares well with the Yaris Cross’ 29.28 points. Five stars is already a good start, but to be as strong as an SUV from the world’s biggest carmaker is reassuring for a homegrown product. Well done.
Full Perodua QV-E specs (445 km NEDC range, 0-100 in 7.5s), pricing (RM80k), battery leasing details (RM297 a month for nine years) and mega gallery here.
GALLERY: Perodua QV-E ASEAN NCAP results
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GALLERY: Perodua QV-E media preview
GALLERY: Perodua QV-E official presentation slides
GALLERY: Perodua QV-E brochure
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that interior using those shiny but uneven surface plastic look very cheap. imagine having to look at it every day every night while inside the car. yuck
steering wheel is also so fugly. OMG hell no
front = Omoda 5
Side = CHR
Rear = Civic FL8
Rojak……Not really self identical design, maybe that called Malaysian Design …..
Perodua is Miros sponsor the agent that tests for ASEAN NCAP, of course they would automatically score 5 Stars.
But the side curtain failed to shield back passenger head from hitting C-pillar door frame during side crashes