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SINGAPORE – In another push for cleaner vehicles here, no more diesel cars and new taxis will be allowed to register here starting in 2025.
Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung announced this in a debate on the government’s sustainability plans on Thursday (March 4).
This is five years before the goal of all new vehicles to be “cleaner energy” models by 2030.
Mr. Ong pointed out that motor vehicles in Singapore emit about 6.4 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year.
If light vehicles, including cars and taxis, were all powered by electricity, “the total net carbon reduction would be about 1.5 to 2 million tonnes per year.”
“This reduction is approximately 4 percent of our total national emissions, which is not insignificant,” added the minister, noting that there is a 50 percent carbon savings from switching to electric vehicles “even if electricity is generated. by fossil fuels “.
He said that banning the registration of new diesel cars and taxis “would further pave the way for greener vehicles” as diesel models are more polluting.
Diesel vehicles in Singapore are primarily freight vehicles and buses. Among passenger cars, diesel models accounted for just 2.9 percent of the 2020 population of 634,042.
Taxis used to be primarily diesel, but more than half have switched to gasoline-electric hybrids. At the end of 2020, only 41.5 percent of the 15,678 cabs here were diesel-powered.
In contrast, 95.8 percent of the 140,783 freight vehicles and 99.4 percent of the 18,912 buses run on diesel.
The new Commercial Vehicle Emissions Plan that takes effect next month is designed in part to persuade owners of light commercial vehicles, which account for 68.9 percent of all freight vehicles, to switch to fuels. more clean.
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