EV Charging Infrastructure Regulatory Compliance: TVET Relevance and Recommendations

Regulatory compliance of Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure includes aspects of licensing, registration, safety, fire protection, user payment systems and uptime. Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and its resources play a key role training manpower for effective regulatory governance and compliance of charging infrastructure. This paper compares the EV charging infrastructure regulatory environment in Malaysia with other countries and identifies improvement opportunities where TVET could play key roles for better regulatory practice and more consistent compliance. Recommendations are suggested to improve both regulatory efficacy and TVET syllabi. Though recommendations in this paper were aimed specifically to synergize and advance charging infrastructure regulatory practice together with supporting TVET in Malaysia, the methodology derived in developing the recommendations could apply to other regulated industries elsewhere.