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Singapore aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040

23 points by ValentineC 7y ago

xiphias2 7y ago
In Norway 44% of new cars bought in January were electric (BEV). This is the metric countries should try to beat instead of setting arbitrary goals for another president who will come in the future.
- dilap 7y ago
  If this was the US, sure. But Singapore has had 3 Prime Ministers, ever, and is in general considered a highly-competent government.
- sk0g 7y ago
  I remember looking out my window in Oslo and seeing four or five Teslas parked in a line fairly regularly. Felt like I saw a roughly even split of electric: ICE cars, but the countryside was lagging a bit. Maybe socioeconomic factors are to blame, like having higher income means you can spend more on your car, and thus go with a Tesla. I didn't experience any range anxiety at all, there was a charger every 20 km or so, seemingly, and I traveled around the bottom half of the country. Not sure how things are in the more remote parts, like Tromso.
tourdownunder 7y ago
Good news. I'm hopeful that this ambitious timeline makes Sun Cable project between Australia's Northern Territory and Singapore more likely.
dmix 7y ago
I was just reading the other day that India announced some big number of solar GW/per year number for 2030 a while back, but projections are already showing that they will make half that target, at best. I'm not sure of the utility of politicians making targets 5+yrs from now, let alone decades from now. Maybe partially meeting them is part of the goal?
- yostrovs 7y ago
  It's a way to show you're doing something without actually doing it. You become pure light beaming good will on the world, unable to do wrong. The one who has to implement the policy will have to pick winners and losers, make concessions, compromise, etc
jacques_chester 7y ago
Every time I'm deafened by a bus or truck on the street I dream of this kind of thing coming to New York.
- m463 7y ago
  Once truck and bus noise is gone, only private prop planes will be left.
- darkteflon 7y ago
  Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, this is a great point and an often-overlooked benefit of EVs. I walk my two year old home along a main road in a major city every day and the noise and diesel fumes are a real bother. That we might not have to deal with either in future is a lovely thought.
BubRoss 7y ago
This is likely very obtainable - cars are already at least double the cost as they would be in most other parts of the world. The permits to drive a car around is usually as much as the car itself. The people driving can afford to make their next car an electric.
oska 7y ago
This is somewhat significant because, as the article notes in passing, Singapore is a major oil-refining hub. National concern about being a low lying island in a world with rising sea levels would now appear to be gaining precedence over more short-term industry & revenue protection concerns.

23 points by ValentineC 7y ago

In Norway 44% of new cars bought in January were electric (BEV). This is the metric countries should try to beat instead of setting arbitrary goals for another president who will come in the future.

dilap 7y ago
If this was the US, sure. But Singapore has had 3 Prime Ministers, ever, and is in general considered a highly-competent government.
sk0g 7y ago
I remember looking out my window in Oslo and seeing four or five Teslas parked in a line fairly regularly. Felt like I saw a roughly even split of electric: ICE cars, but the countryside was lagging a bit. Maybe socioeconomic factors are to blame, like having higher income means you can spend more on your car, and thus go with a Tesla. I didn't experience any range anxiety at all, there was a charger every 20 km or so, seemingly, and I traveled around the bottom half of the country. Not sure how things are in the more remote parts, like Tromso.

tourdownunder 7y ago

Good news. I'm hopeful that this ambitious timeline makes Sun Cable project between Australia's Northern Territory and Singapore more likely.

dmix 7y ago

I was just reading the other day that India announced some big number of solar GW/per year number for 2030 a while back, but projections are already showing that they will make half that target, at best. I'm not sure of the utility of politicians making targets 5+yrs from now, let alone decades from now. Maybe partially meeting them is part of the goal?

yostrovs 7y ago
It's a way to show you're doing something without actually doing it. You become pure light beaming good will on the world, unable to do wrong. The one who has to implement the policy will have to pick winners and losers, make concessions, compromise, etc

jacques_chester 7y ago

Every time I'm deafened by a bus or truck on the street I dream of this kind of thing coming to New York.

m463 7y ago
Once truck and bus noise is gone, only private prop planes will be left.
darkteflon 7y ago
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, this is a great point and an often-overlooked benefit of EVs. I walk my two year old home along a main road in a major city every day and the noise and diesel fumes are a real bother. That we might not have to deal with either in future is a lovely thought.

BubRoss 7y ago

This is likely very obtainable - cars are already at least double the cost as they would be in most other parts of the world. The permits to drive a car around is usually as much as the car itself. The people driving can afford to make their next car an electric.

oska 7y ago

This is somewhat significant because, as the article notes in passing, Singapore is a major oil-refining hub. National concern about being a low lying island in a world with rising sea levels would now appear to be gaining precedence over more short-term industry & revenue protection concerns.