EVCC Pedas RSA: Energy and Water Monitoring at a Landmark Highway Hub

A new kind of stop on the North-South Expressway

At KM241 southbound on the PLUS North-South Expressway, just past Seremban and about 84 km from Kuala Lumpur, EVCC Pedas RSA is taking shape as Malaysia's first privately operated Rest and Service Area. Developed by Levn Capital with approval from the Malaysian Highway Authority, it pairs a full Shell fuel station with one of the country's most ambitious EV charging deployments: Tesla Superchargers and Gentari DC fast charging on what has been billed as the nation's first 350 kW charging corridor. When it opens, it will be among the largest combined fuel-and-charging hubs on the Malaysian highway network, and the building itself is designed to a green certification standard rather than thrown up as a roadside forecourt.

A site like that has an energy and water profile unlike anything a traditional petrol station has had to manage, and Cobler monitors both with CobiNeural.

Why a fuel-and-charging hub is hard to run

A conventional highway stop draws a fairly predictable load: lights, pumps, a convenience store, air conditioning. EVCC Pedas is a different animal.

- High-power EV charging is a new kind of electrical load. A bank of 350 kW chargers serving travelers all reaching for the same socket at peak holiday traffic creates sharp, sudden demand spikes that a fuel forecourt was never designed around. Managing and understanding that demand is its own discipline.
- It runs several businesses at once. The Shell fuel station, a Shell Select convenience space and a Deli2Go café, site lighting, and the cooling that keeps it all comfortable in the Malaysian heat, each drawing energy in its own pattern.
- Water matters too. A busy RSA serving thousands of travelers consumes significant water across its amenities and facilities, where a silent leak or abnormal use can run for weeks unnoticed on a quarterly bill.
- A green-certified building has to prove it. A rating earned on the drawing board only means something if the building actually performs that way in operation, which you can only know by measuring.

What Cobler monitors

CobiNeural gives the operator a single, live view of how the site actually consumes energy and water, broken down rather than lumped into one bill.

- Energy at site and equipment level, so the EV charging load, the fuel station and the retail and cooling can each be seen for what they contribute, and the demand peaks the high-power chargers create are visible as they happen rather than after the fact.
- Water consumption across the site, so abnormal use and leaks surface early instead of arriving as a surprise on a statement.
- One platform, location by location, instead of separate readings from separate systems that nobody reconciles.

That visibility is the foundation everything else builds on. You cannot manage demand you cannot see, verify a green rating you do not measure, or catch a leak you are not watching for.

Why it matters

EVCC Pedas RSA is a glimpse of what the Malaysian highway stop is becoming: part fuel station, part charging hub, part retail destination, and a green building that has to live up to its certification in daily operation. Underneath that ambition sits an unglamorous requirement, knowing exactly how much energy and water the place is using and where it is going. That is the part Cobler provides, so a landmark site can be run on data rather than guesswork from its first day open.

To put the same energy and water visibility under your own site, talk to our team, or see more of our work.