The upcoming ban on new diesel cars and taxis comes before all new cars and taxis registered here are required to be cleaner-energy models from 2030
NEW diesel cars and taxis will no longer be registered in Singapore starting Jan 1, 2025, as part of a push by the government to have all vehicles on the streets of the Republic running on cleaner energy by 2040.
The move to phase out the more pollutive vehicles was announced in Parliament three years ago during a debate on the government’s environmental sustainability plans in March 2021. Since then, the proportion of new diesel car and taxi registrations has remained below 1 per cent in total, given the availability of cleaner alternatives, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Jul 10.
The upcoming ban on new diesel cars and taxis comes before all new cars and taxis registered here are required to be cleaner-energy models from 2030. While owners of diesel cars registered before Jan 1, 2025, will be able to renew their certificate of entitlement (COE) after the 2025 deadline, they will be subject to higher road taxes to discourage renewal, LTA said. This is part of existing policy to charge a road tax surcharge of 10 per cent to 50 per cent for vehicles that are more than 10 years old, depending on the vehicle’s age.
About one in three new cars sold in Singapore from Jan to May is an EV
Chinese brand BYD accounted for 45.3 per cent of all EVs registered between January and May 2024
The installation of EV chargers is also on track to support the growth in the EV population, with more than 7,100 charging points across Singapore today, including charging points in more than a third of Housing Board carparks, Chee said in a written reply to a parliamentary question. MP Yip Hon Weng (Yio Chu Kang) had asked about the Transport Ministry’s plans to make buying and owning EVs more favourable for consumers, and how the development of EV charging infrastructure was progressing.
The latest available information from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) shows that of the 14,802 new cars registered from January to May, 4,819 units – or 32.6 per cent – were EVs. Figures for June are expected to be available only after the supply of certificates of entitlement (COEs) for the upcoming August to October period is announced. This has to happen before the start of the first tender exercise on Aug 5.
Singapore aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040
Singapore aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, making a bigger bet on electric cars as part of its efforts to cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change, the finance minister said on Tuesday. The wealthy city-state of 5.7 million, which is hiking investment in flood defences, joins Norway, Britain and others in setting a target to cut the use of vehicles with combustion engines.
"Our vision is to phase out ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles and have all vehicles run on cleaner energy by 2040," Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said in his budget speech. Singapore, which has been criticised by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as not being supportive of electric vehicles, is one of the most expensive places in the world to buy a car and there are few electric vehicles on the roads.
In Tuesday's budget, Heng said measures to encourage electric vehicle adoption included a registration fee rebate on purchases of fully electric car and taxis. The country, an oil-refining hub, will also expand public charging infrastructure to 60,000 points by 2030 from 1,600 now.
Dyson kills Singapore electric car project
"Though we have tried very hard throughout the development process, we simply can no longer see a way to make it commercially viable. We have been through a serious process to find a buyer for the project which has, unfortunately, been unsuccessful so far," says Mr Dyson. PHOTO: DYSON
HOME appliance giant Dyson has scrapped its entire automotive division, including its plan for an electric car plant in Singapore, the British firm announced on Thursday. Founder James Dyson said the UK company is shutting the division due to a lack of commercial feasibility. Dyson had made its patents for its electric car public in May.
"Though we have tried very hard throughout the development process, we simply can no longer see a way to make it commercially viable. We have been through a serious process to find a buyer for the project which has, unfortunately, been unsuccessful so far," he said in an email to staff on Thursday.
In October 2018, the firm - best known for its bagless vacuum cleaners - said it will manufacture its electric cars at a two-storey facility in Singapore, targeting to roll out the first car in 2021. Subsequently, in January this year, Dyson announced it was moving its headquarters from the UK to Singapore.
New Energy Vehicles (NEV) in China
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The stock of new energy vehicles in China is the world's largest, with cumulative sales of 5.5 million units through December 2020. These figures include passenger cars and heavy-duty commercial vehicles such buses and sanitation trucks, and only accounts for vehicles manufactured in the country. Of these, there were 4.9 million new energy vehicles in use at the end of 2020, accounting for 1.75% of all vehicles in circulation in China.
The Chinese government uses the term new energy vehicles (NEVs) to designate plug-in electric vehicles eligible for public subsidies, and includes only battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). Sales of new energy vehicles since 2011 passed the 500,000 unit milestone in March 2016, and the 1 million mark in early 2017, both, excluding imports. Cumulative sales of new energy passenger cars achieved the 500,000 unit milestone in September 2016, and 1 million by the end of 2017. Domestically produced passenger cars account for 96% of new energy car sales in China.
As of December 2020, China had the largest stock of highway legal plug-in passenger cars with over 4.5 million units, 42% of the global plug-in car fleet in use. China also dominates the plug-in light commercial vehicle and electric bus deployment, with its stock reaching over 500,000 buses in 2019, 98% of the global stock, and 247,500 electric light commercial vehicles, 65% of the global fleet. In addition, the country also leads sales of medium- and heavy duty electric trucks, with over 12,000 trucks sold, and nearly all battery electric.
