Here’s more info on i2C, Indonesia’s latest national car. The ‘Indonesian Indigenous Car’ (that’s what i2C stands for) is making its debut in 1:1 clay model form at the 2025 Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS), and the company behind it is PT Teknologi Militer Indonesia (TMI), which deals with military equipment.
According to the company’s ‘about us’ description on its website, TMI is a ‘strategic platform for acquisition of innovative technologies to enhance the national defense and security sectors, also the system integrator for combat/battle management system embodying advance military technology development’ and the products section lists air, land and sea defense systems.
i2C’s first product will be a large SUV based on a platform of a foreign partner which identity is yet to be disclosed. As revealed in our initial post, TMI has roped in Italdesign for styling, but the famous Italian design studio is merely providing advice and technical input.
“The designers are Indonesians. We’re only asking for advice from Italdesign,” TMI president and CEO Harsusantu told Kompas. He added that the Italian company is also providing technical input and access to a global design database, and that TMI is working with Indonesian universities and local designers.
The people behind Indonesia’s latest national car claim that the i2C electric seven-seater SUV is will be the first car to be fully developed with intellectual property (IP) owned by Indonesia. It is said that five local designers came up with the design from scratch with a Nusantara cultural approach.
According to TMI, i2C’s focus isn’t just on design, but also manufacturing readiness. “All of the design takes into consideration the availability of tooling and the local supply chain so that production costs don’t go wild,” the TMI chief said, claiming that while the SUV’s battery and motor are from global vendors, the integration system, software and platform are being developed by the i2C team so that the IP belongs to Indonesia.
TMI says that it will build 40 to 50 prototypes for the purpose of crash testing and production feasibility, aided by digital simulators. They are targeting mass production by the end of 2027 or early 2028, with a target price of below Rp 500 juta (RM129,531).
To recap, i2C’s donor car remains a mystery, but it’s most likely to be a Chinese company, as the company quotes a CLTC range of 617 km from an 83.4 kWh NMC battery. There’s a single rear-mounted motor pushing out 204 PS and 310 Nm of torque (identical figures to the BYD Atto 3), which pushes the big SUV from 0-100 km/h in an estimated 9.1 seconds. Top speed is 200 km/h. As for charging, i2C quotes max rates of 150 kW DC and 11 kW AC.
What do you think of the i2C SUV’s design and preliminary specs? Anyway, two other national cars from Indonesia were recently announced – the Aletra L8 and Polytron G3. The Aletra is a rebadged Livan Maple 80V L, which is essentially a Geely Jiaji EV, while the Polytron is a Skyworth EV6 SUV.
GALLERY: i2C concept at GIIAS 2025
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