Perodua ‘QV-E’ EV to get some form of AVAS? Low-speed pedestrian warning sound mandatory by 2026

Perodua’s upcoming EV has been spotted again, this time at Bukit Sentosa (very near P2’s Sungai Choh base) by user Chip Pkb, who shared his discovery on the paultan.org Automotive/Car Discussion Facebook Group.

This time there’s a video showing the car on the move, which reveals what appears to be all-LED rear lighting (including the reverse lights), sequential indicators and LED DRLs below the headlamps.

Also, turn your volume up: can you hear something as the car moves? Sounds like an acoustic vehicle alert system (AVAS), which will be mandatory for EVs in Malaysia the minute we enter 2026. Yup, like the Proton eMas 7‘s ‘ice-cream truck’ sound, which to me is more like an airport terminal jingle.

I can’t really tell if the first two ‘boops’ (sorry, but that’s exactly what it sounds like) are part of the low-speed pedestrian warning sound, but a few seconds later as the car draws closer to the camera, you can hear a kind of cosmic ‘bubbling’ that sounds quite futuristic. What do you think? All we know so far about the ‘QV-E’ here.

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