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12.5% Of Cars Sold in Singapore In Q1 Were Battery-Electric Vehicles!

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6,493 cars were sold in Singapore in the first three months of the year. That means 13.26% of the cars sold in that period had a plug, with full battery-electric vehicles dominating and reaching 12.5% 810 of these were fully electric and 51 were plug-in hybrids. for the quarter, which is pretty impressive. Top 5 […]

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Electric Vans Take 52% Of The Van Market In Singapore In Q1

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Sales of battery-electric commercial vehicles hit 30.8% in Singapore in Q1 across the vehicle categories, according to Singapore’s Land Transport Authority. Singapore’s Land Transport Authority lists four categories of commercial vehicles.

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Kia starts pilot of last-mile delivery service in Singapore for future electric PBV business

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to break into Singapore’s last-mile delivery market. On January 28, the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at launching a pilot project in Singapore using the Niro EV and evaluating the potential for a future PBV-based business model.

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NTU and Volvo jointly to develop autonomous electric buses in Singapore; Volvo’s first autonomous public transportation application

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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Volvo Buses will begin testing autonomous electric passenger buses in Singapore in 2019. For Volvo, this will be its first autonomous application in public transportation anywhere in the world.

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13% Of Passenger Vehicles Sold In Singapore from January To May Of 2023 Were EVs

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Tesla was the topselling battery-electric vehicle brand in Singapore in May, with 90 units sold that month. BYD was second with 58 units registered in May. BMW was third with 47 units, Hyundai in 4th with 44 units, and Mercedes-Benz rounded off the top 5. For the period covering the first 5 months of the […]

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Researchers In Singapore Claim They Know How To Tame Those Pesky Lithium-Ion Battery Dendrites

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Researchers in Singapore say they have devised a way to control dendrites in lithium-ion batteries.

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Gogoro’s Swappable Batteries To Power Food Delivery Scooters In Singapore

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Gogoro is a company we love to follow here at CleanTechnica. They got their start in Taiwan, where scooters are already immensely popular. But, Gogoro figured out a way to make it easier to keep an electric scooter charged up in a country where most people don’t have access to a plug where they park, […]

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