Go Automobile Manufacturing Sdn Bhd (Go Automobile), together with Mara Liner Sdn Bhd (MLSB) and Higer Bus Company Limited, has established a strategic partnership to develop, manufacture and engineer the production of electric buses meant for local market.
Through the cooperation, MLSB has also been appointed as the authorised sales representative, apart from providing the after sales service for all Go Auto products, including electric buses.
Go Auto Executive Director, Dato’ SM Azli SM Nasimuddin Kamal said his party has handed over an electric bus to MLSB meant to be used for training and research purposes.
Last April, Go Automobile and MLSB had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Memacu Agenda Bumiputera exhibition. It was witnessed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his deputy Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Under the agreement, Go Automobile would supply electric buses to MLSB for a programme under the UNIBUS Initiative, which will be implemented at the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) Skudai, Johor in January next year, before moving to other public publicities.