Charge+ has unveiled its plan to establish a 5,000-km EV charging highway across five Southeast Asian countries, encompassing Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The project aims to install 45 fast-charging hubs.
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Tesla has decided not to produce its Model S and Model X as right-hand drive models. This affects the markets in Great Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand.
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British startup Helixx has unveiled a new concept allowing companies to deploy light electric vehicles in metropolitan areas at low cost. At the core of the approach are franchise agreements tied in with technology licenses.
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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) plans to increase production of the ID. Buzz. That should cut delivery times and make the electric model available in more countries. Additionally, VWN wants to expand its range of light electric commercial vehicles.
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Volvo Construction Equipment is preparing to launch sales in Singapore. The company’s new online portal is open for Singapore companies to register their interest in using electric machines from Volvo CE with the first to arrive in the next quarter.
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Singapore will reduce its domestic emissions by rolling out various green initiatives across the land, air and sea transport sectors. The measures include electrifying bus fleets, as well as support vehicles in the airport and harbour, and a major charging initiative.
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Hyundai Motor’s assembly plant in Singapore will start rolling out the electric Ioniq 5 in the first half of this year. The Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre in Jurong, the site of Singapore’s first vehicle assembly plant in more than 40 years, is expected to be completed in April.
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BeyonCa is a new electric car start-up from China. BeyonCa was founded by Renault China CEO Soh Weiming and Dongfeng Motor, has a headquarters in Beijing, a design centre in Munich and a development site for artificial intelligence in Singapore.
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Charge+, an EV charging solution provider for Singapore and Southeast Asia, has won the Singapore government tender for EV charging infrastructure to install, operate and maintain about 4,000 EV charging points in Singapore.
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DHL Express has announced the addition of 80 electric vehicles to its Singapore fleet in partnership with transport company ComfortDelGro.
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Pan-United Concrete is looking to replace up to a thousand diesel trucks with battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell versions to run its concrete business in Singapore. As a first step, the company has turned to Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd, one of Asia’s largest consulting firms, to study the transition’s feasibility.
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Singapore-based battery developer SES (formerly SolidEnergy Systems) has unveiled a new hybrid lithium metal battery cell called Apollo with a capacity of 107 Ah, and also announced plans for a production facility in Shanghai.
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Although the Tesla Model 3 costs the equivalent of nearly US$150,000 in Singapore in its base version, the number of new Teslas on Singapore roads has increased more than tenfold from 30 in the first half of the year to 487 in the third quarter of 2021.
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Tritium has partnered with EV charging network operator ChargeNet with a plan to install RTM direct current (DC) fast chargers at Taco Bell restaurants in South San Francisco. Tritium has also opened a new office in Singapore.
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Ardian and FiveT Hydrogen have announced the beginning of Hy24, “the world’s largest investment platform focused exclusively on clean hydrogen infrastructure”. Hy24’s first fund is expected to have a volume of 1.5 billion euros.
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In Singapore, Hyundai and partners SP Group and Komoco Motors are trialling customer care packages with the ‘E-mobility Pilot’. A total of 50 long-range Ioniq 5 electric cars will be involved in the program which mainly includes charging and maintenance packages.
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People in Singapore may now book an electric cab as local taxi company Strides Taxis takes delivery of 15 electric cars. The China-made MG 5 vehicles are the first of a total of 300 models to arrive in the city-state by the end of the year.
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US start-up Ample has raised $160 million (137 million euros) in its Series C funding round. The San Francisco-based company develops battery swap solutions for electric cars.
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France’s petrochemical company Total, which now likes to be known as TotalEnergies, has scored an e-mobility deal in Singapore. Its compatriot Bolloré will hand over what it claims to be the largest EV charging network in the city-state, Blue Charge.
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Hyundai Motor Group, which includes Kia, announced expanding a partnership with ride-hailing service Grab in Southeast Asia. The focus is now on piloting new EV business models such as leasing EVs with a battery-as-a-service model or car-as-a-service model, to facilitate the switch for Grab drivers.
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Porsche Asia Pacific and Shell announce they are setting up Southeast Asia’s first cross-border high power charging network. It comprises twelve charging points at six Shell service stations strategically located along Malaysia’s north-south highway.
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Singapore will not allow diesel-powered cars and taxis to be registered from 2025 onwards, five years ahead than previously scheduled.
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One year after announcing to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure massively, Singapore more than doubles its claim. The government of the city-state now wants to install 60,000 charge points by 2030 and has more measures in place.
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Volocopter plans to launch its first commercial electric flight cab service in Singapore within the next three years, likely initially on a tourist route along the southern coast. In preparation for the upcoming launch, the German company has established Volocopter Asia Holding.
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Sunseap Group, a clean energy provider based in Singapore, has set up a new business unit called Charge+, with plans to install 10,000 charging points across the island within this decade.
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The SP Group, a Singaporean energy utility company, has announced a strategic investment in the German charging infrastructure service provider The Mobility House. The investment amount has not been revealed. The Munich-based company intends to use the cooperation to open up markets in Asia.
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Hyundai is planning to produce electric cars in Singapore from 2022. The first vehicle from the plant will probably be a compact crossover model called Ioniq 3.
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Starting immediately, the government of Singapore will only procure electric and hybrid buses from now on and aims is to completely electrify the bus fleet by 2040. Singapore’s bus fleets currently number around 5,400 vehicles.
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The Singapore government wants to expand the public charging infrastructure from the current 1,600 to 28,000 charging points by 2030 and is planning a series of monetary incentives from next year to support the introduction of electric vehicles.
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Volocopter has completed the first manned test flight with their 2X electric aircraft in Singapore. The pilot covered a distance of approx. 1.5 km at an average height of 40 meters.
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