Purchase, Singapore and Transportation

Continental acquires Singapore-based mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions for ITS portfolio

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2017

Continental has acquired Singapore based mobility-intelligence provider Quantum Inventions. With the closing, Continental welcomes around 120 employees working across Quantum Inventions’ three offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia; and Quantum Inventions Development Center (QIDC) in India into its fold.

Singapore

Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Asia

Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles. CEV bandings (Singapore dollars). 101 to 120. 121 to 140.

Singapore

Singapore Carbon Taxi C1

EIA: Almost all US renewable diesel is consumed in California; most isn’t made there

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2023

Instead, most of California’s renewable diesel was produced in other states or was imported, mostly from Singapore. The California LCFS requires transportation fuels used in the state to be mixed with biofuels to lower their carbon intensities.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel California Louisiana

EIA: Renewable diesel increasingly used to meet California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard; 10.1% of total diesel supplied in 2Q18

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To comply with the LCFS, petroleum refiners, importers of motor gasoline and diesel, and wholesalers of motor transportation fuel are required to either produce low carbon fuels or purchase credits to demonstrate compliance. Regulated parties trade credits through the online LCFS Reporting Tool and Credit Bank & Transfer System.

Diesel

Diesel Renewable Carbon Standards

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks.

Singapore

Singapore 2000 Store IDEA

California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. The CI of a fuel is determined by the sum of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, processing and consumption of a fuel (its pathway). Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd.

Renewable

Renewable California Carbon Diesel

Equatic combines CO2 removal and carbon-negative hydrogen generation; pre-purchase option with Boeing

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2023

Alongside the launch, Equatic entered into a pre-purchase option agreement with Boeing. —Lord John Browne, Founder, and Chairman at BeyondNetZero, and the former CEO of BP who is now the Chairman of Equatic’s Advisory Board Equatic currently operates two carbon removal pilots in Los Angeles and Singapore.

Carbon

Carbon Hydrogen Purchase CO2

Ride-sharer Grab to invest $700M in “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Grab drivers earn 40-70% more per hour than the average transport or delivery driver in Indonesia, and Grab has generated more than US$260 million of income for its driver partners in Indonesia. Grab will continue to expand to more cities in Indonesia, grow its transport services, and invest in GrabPay as a mobile payments platform.

Indonesia

Indonesia 2020 Financing Asia

MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

The more comprehensive, but less detailed, nationwide data came from a national household transportation survey, which studied households across the country to learn about how and where people actually do their driving. This is an issue where common sense can lead to strongly opposing views. Resources.

MIT

MIT Personal Energy Vehicles

Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to the Association of Passenger Transport, in the first half of 2022, China exported 58,400 new energy passenger cars to Southeast Asia, accounting for 16.1 And there is also a 150,000 baht (equal to more than 27,000 yuan) subsidy for each pure electric vehicle purchase.

Asia

Asia Chinese Thailand Companies

BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 Under those agreements, CNOOC will: Purchase 3.6 Ltd (Tokyo Gas), announced in March 2010, under which Tokyo Gas will: Purchase 1.2 mtpa of LNG. Become a 2.5%

Coal

Coal Gas Australia Water

BYD signs MOU to discuss EV JV in Singapore; distributing eBUSes and e6 taxis

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2011

and its wholly owned subsidiary SMRT International Pte Ltd, a multi-modal transport service provider in Singapore, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BYD Company Limited to enter into discussions regarding the possibility of establishing a joint venture to distribute BYD’s eBUSes and e6 Taxis in Singapore.

E6

E6 Singapore Taxi BYD

What does 2023 have in store for electric vehicles?

Blink Charging

DECEMBER 29, 2022

People who want to purchase an EV will have more options, too. EV purchase incentives will also help, although they can be a bit confusing and restrictive. The Inflation Reduction Act that passed in 2022 extended the purchase incentives (now known as the Clean Vehicle Credit) through to the end of 2032. .

Store

Store Electric Vehicles Vehicles SUV

Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

billion in 2019, according to the International Air Transport Association. Each route starts and ends in Singapore and takes travelers on a three-night trip through Malaysia. Consumers today are focused on sustainability, investment value and craftsmanship when considering a luxury purchase,” he said.

Egypt

Egypt Los Angeles Las Vegas

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. EVs have finally come of age. We need to pursue other strategies.

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electric

EV Driven

Continental acquires Singapore-based mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions for ITS portfolio

Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

EIA: Almost all US renewable diesel is consumed in California; most isn’t made there

EIA: Renewable diesel increasingly used to meet California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard; 10.1% of total diesel supplied in 2Q18

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

Equatic combines CO2 removal and carbon-negative hydrogen generation; pre-purchase option with Boeing

Ride-sharer Grab to invest $700M in “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan

MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

BYD signs MOU to discuss EV JV in Singapore; distributing eBUSes and e6 taxis

What does 2023 have in store for electric vehicles?

Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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