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

CleanTechnica EVs

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

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

CleanTechnica EVs

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, […] They got their start in Taiwan, where scooters are already immensely popular.

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Greenlots and BMW Group Asia Partner to provide Singapore???s first electric vehicle network

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California-based Greenlots, a global provider of open standards-based technology solutions for electric vehicle (EV) networks, has partnered with BMW Group Asia to provide Singapore with its first Home and Public Charging network as part of BMWs 360 ELECTRIC program.

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BMW Group and NTU Singapore launch US$965K electromobility research program; Electromobility in Asia and Smart Materials

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BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) launched a new electromobility research program, involving the all-electric BMW i3 and plug-in hybrid sports car BMW i8. Both parties will be injecting a combined S$1.3 million (US$965,000) to drive the new research projects, on top of the initial S$5.5 million (US$4.1

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DENSO and USJC announce mass production shipment of automotive IGBTs, targeting expanding EV market

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Battery and plug-in electric cars require significantly more IGBT units than conventional ICE cars. UMC is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, plus local offices in United States, Europe, China, Japan, Korea & Singapore, with worldwide total 20,000 employees.

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Thailand’s EV industry growing rapidly

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The ASEAN member states are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The new Mercedes facility is the third of its kind in Mercedes’ global battery production network, designed to produce plug-in hybrid automotive batteries. million units in 2018.

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Singapore levies carbon tax on used Tesla for electricity to recharge it

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A businessman and electric-car fan who imported a Tesla Model S into Singapore has had to pay an additional emission tax on the zero-emission luxury car.