Starbucks Malaysia and ChargEV announced on their Instagram accounts that ChargEV charging stations will be available for Starbucks customers to use at 17 selected Starbucks nationwide. ChargEV also mentioned that using the stations would be free of charge.
“We are proud to announce that ChargEV will be available at selected Starbucks Drive-Thrus across Malaysia,” wrote Starbucks.
According to their Instagram Stories posts, the first location seems to be the Starbucks Drive Thru at Eco Grandeur. The branch is in the Bandar Puncak Alam area in Selangor.
Starbucks and ChargEV announced they more Starbucks Drive-Thru locations will have charging stations for EVs. Here are the 17 Starbucks stores:
- Starbucks Kota Kemuning Drive-Thru (DC chargers)
- Starbucks Reserve Setia Alam (DC chargers)
- Starbucks Ukay Perdana Drive-Thru (DC chargers)
- Starbucks Eco Gradeur Drive-Thru (DC chargers)
- Starbucks Conezion Putrajaya Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Rimbayu Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Jade Hill Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Reserve Eco Majestic Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Eco Horizon Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Icon City Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Hillside Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Juru (R&R) Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Tanjong Tokong Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Malim Jaya Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Bandar Seri Alam Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Seri Austin Drive-Thru
- Starbucks Skudai (R&R) Drive-Thru
From November 1, Starbucks customers who are also ChargEV members and charging their EVs at one Starbucks stores can get up to 50% off their first Grande beverage, purchased in a single receipt. Members will need to produce their ChargEV membership ID on the mobile app upon redemption, and the promotion is valid for 12 months.
From now until the end of October 2022, EV owners can charge their vehicles at all 23 EV charging stations in 17 different Starbucks stores completely free of charge. The rates will be announced at the end of the free charging period.
If you’re an EV owner, you might find this news appealing as you can take advantage of the time you have to wait charging an EV by sipping a cup of coffee from Starbucks. From the photos, it appears that they have deployed DC fast chargers which could easily charge up a compatible EV up to 80% in between 30-60 minutes.
While we’re at it, my colleague Rory pointed out that he mentioned this idea in an old episode of Let’s Talk About (our podcast! Check it out!). He even said that Starbucks could have this idea for free, something that I thought was an incredible mistake on his end.
“Starbucks… people spend half an hour charging, at least. Imagine if they could spend half an hour drinking your overpriced coffee. Put a charging station in every Starbucks… let me put it this way, the same people who go to Starbucks are the same people who buy EVs,” said Rory. You can watch his mulut masin words in the video below.
So, either Rory predicted the future, or Starbucks and ChargEV paid attention to his plea. But whoever’s idea it was, sticking an EV charging station at Starbucks Drive-Thrus is a great step to help campaign for more EVs in the country. So, when Rory told me that giving his idea out for free to Starbucks was “for the greater good” and not a missed opportunity, I almost believed him. Almost.
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