i2C EV SUV Unveiled as Indonesia’s New National Car

Making a surprise debut at GIIAS 2025 is the 1:1 clay model of Indonesia’s new national car, the i2C EV SUV.

Besides new and updated models from overseas brands, the Gaikindo Indonesia International Motor Show (GIIAS) 2025 also witnessed a surprise debut of Indonesia’s new national car, the i2C. An abbreviation for ‘Indonesia Indigenous Car,’ this EV SUV arrives at Gaikindo in a 1:1 clay model form, featuring a design penned in collaboration with renowned Italian design house Italdesign.

The company behind the i2C is one of Indonesia’s renowned military equipment firms, PT Teknologi Militer Indonesia (TMI). According to its official website, the company is a “strategic platform for acquisition of innovative technologies to enhance the national defense and security sectors, and also the system integrator for combat/battle management systems embodying advanced military technology development.”

Back to the i2C, this upcoming EV SUV will be positioned as the company’s large flagship SUV model, using a platform sourced from an unnamed foreign partner. While Italdesign was roped in for its design, TMI insisted that the i2C’s design was mainly penned by local Indonesian designers, with the famed Italian design studio only coming in to provide additional insights and technical input.

"The designer is still Indonesian. We just ask for advice from ItalDesign," TMI president and CEO Harsusantu told Kompas.

Being posited as a three-row, seven-seater EV SUV, the i2C concept here seems like a large SUV, although no exact dimensions were given, at least for now. From its design cues, we can see that the i2C took inspiration from many other modern EV SUVs, the most notable being the Kia EV9 due to its sharp and angular lines, as well as the large SUV form itself.

As mentioned earlier, the donor car’s identity remains a mystery for now, but TMI does share some numbers we can expect out of the i2C, and it is safe to say the donor may be from a Chinese company. Some figures quoted by TMI include a CLTC range of up to 617 km, a sizable 83.4-kWh NMC battery pack, and a single-motor setup rated at up to 204 PS and 310 Nm that allows the large SUV to cruise from 0 to 100 km/h in 9.1 seconds and a top speed of 200 km/h.

Charging-wise, the i2C is claimed to support up to 150 kW of DCFC, while its AC figure is capped at just 11 kW.

While the displayed unit here at Gaikindo is still a mere clay model, TMI is confident that the i2C will go into mass production as early as 2027, with the first 40 to 50 prototypes being built earlier for the purpose of crash testing and production feasibility. The target price tag is below IDR 500 million (RM130,000 approx.), which TMI touts as “affordable" for the Indonesian market.

The upcoming i2C EV SUV will join the wave of new Indonesian national cars, with the most recent two being both the Aletra L8 and Polytron G3—the former being an EV version of the Geely Jiaji MPV, while the latter is essentially a Skyworth EV6 SUV playing dress-up as an Indonesian.