Bus Cap Electric Bus Assembly

Bus Cap Berhad is an investment holding company listed on Bursa Malaysia ACE Market, with a registered address in Kuala Lumpur and operations in Malaysia and Singapore. Through its SHL Coach subsidiary it presents itself as a pure-play bus builder with a long manufacturing heritage.

In August 2026 the company signed an exclusive memorandum of understanding with BYD Malaysia to explore a localized electric bus assembly and manufacturing facility in Perak, covering assembly, distribution and after-sales support. This extends its bus body building business into new energy commercial vehicles.

• Bus building: SHL Coach bus body manufacturing for the Malaysian and Singapore markets.
• Electric bus assembly: planned localized assembly facility in Perak under the BYD MOU.
• Distribution: planned electric bus distribution with BYD Malaysia.
• After-sales: planned service and support for electric buses.
• New energy solutions: stated expansion into new energy commercial vehicles.

Public transit operators in Malaysia and Singapore buying locally assembled electric buses. Regional bus makers seeking assembly partnerships with Chinese EV platforms.

Local assembly capability suited to Malaysian electric bus tenders that favor local content. Access to BYD electric bus platforms through the MOU. After-sales support planned as part of the arrangement. Regional delivery experience across Malaysia and Singapore.

Malaysia is procuring large batches of electric buses for Rapid KL and Rapid Penang with local assembly requirements, and ASEAN transit agencies are moving off diesel. Vietnamese bus operators and assemblers can look at such partnerships as models for localizing electric bus supply.

Listed on Bursa Malaysia ACE Market in 2026 (site news dated June to July 2026). The BYD MOU is described as non-binding and exclusive. Founded year is not stated for the holding company; SHL Coach heritage cited as 58 years.